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Brandon Paddock updated CB-8632:
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    Description: 
Currently, the InAppBrowser plug-in uses an iframe when running on Windows 8.1 
and Windows Phone 8.1. This is severely limiting and causes things to fail 
which work fine on other platforms.

A key example is trying to host my own site's content in the app. Our server 
specifies X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN in its HTTP response headers. This has no 
effect on normal WebView controls, which ignore this by design. However, the 
iframe that this plug-in uses respects it, giving this error:

APPHOST9613: The app couldn’t navigate to https://<ourtestsite> because of this 
error: FORBIDFRAMING.

Since Windows provides a native WebView control (which works inside WWAHost web 
apps and is accessible as the x-ms-webview HTML element type), the plug-in 
should be updated to use this when it's available.

There are other advantages to doing this versus the X-Frame-Options issue I 
mentioned (which I can perhaps do an annoying UA-based workaround for I 
suppose), such as:
1) Separate UI thread/process/AppContainer (depending on OS version).
2) Behaviors and API surface more tuned to WebView (and in-app browser) 
scenarios.
3) Customizable user agent, etc.

  was:
Currently, the InAppBrowser plug-in uses an iframe when running on Windows 8.1 
and Windows Phone 8.1. This is severely limiting and causes things to fail 
which work fine on other platforms.

A key example is trying to host my own site's content in the app. Our server 
specifies X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN in its HTTP response headers. This has no 
effect on normal WebView controls, which ignore this by design. However, the 
iframe that this plug-in uses respects it, giving this error:

APPHOST9613: The app couldn’t navigate to 
https://devtest1.zealyst.com/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2F because of this error: 
FORBIDFRAMING.

Since Windows provides a native WebView control (which works inside WWAHost web 
apps and is accessible as the x-ms-webview HTML element type), the plug-in 
should be updated to use this when it's available.

There are other advantages to doing this versus the X-Frame-Options issue I 
mentioned (which I can perhaps do an annoying UA-based workaround for I 
suppose), such as:
1) Separate UI thread/process/AppContainer (depending on OS version).
2) Behaviors and API surface more tuned to WebView (and in-app browser) 
scenarios.
3) Customizable user agent, etc.


> Plugin should use x-ms-webview and not iframe on Windows 8.1+
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CB-8632
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-8632
>             Project: Apache Cordova
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Plugin InAppBrowser
>    Affects Versions: 3.5.0
>         Environment: Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1
>            Reporter: Brandon Paddock
>
> Currently, the InAppBrowser plug-in uses an iframe when running on Windows 
> 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. This is severely limiting and causes things to 
> fail which work fine on other platforms.
> A key example is trying to host my own site's content in the app. Our server 
> specifies X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN in its HTTP response headers. This has 
> no effect on normal WebView controls, which ignore this by design. However, 
> the iframe that this plug-in uses respects it, giving this error:
> APPHOST9613: The app couldn’t navigate to https://<ourtestsite> because of 
> this error: FORBIDFRAMING.
> Since Windows provides a native WebView control (which works inside WWAHost 
> web apps and is accessible as the x-ms-webview HTML element type), the 
> plug-in should be updated to use this when it's available.
> There are other advantages to doing this versus the X-Frame-Options issue I 
> mentioned (which I can perhaps do an annoying UA-based workaround for I 
> suppose), such as:
> 1) Separate UI thread/process/AppContainer (depending on OS version).
> 2) Behaviors and API surface more tuned to WebView (and in-app browser) 
> scenarios.
> 3) Customizable user agent, etc.



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