Cordova / Phonegap plugin for communicating with HTTP servers. Supports iOS, Android and Browser.
This is a fork of Wymsee's Cordova-HTTP plugin.
- SSL / TLS Pinning
- CORS restrictions do not apply
- X.509 client certificate based authentication
- Handling of HTTP code 401 - read more at Issue CB-2415
Please check CHANGELOG.md for details about updating to a new version.
The plugin conforms to the Cordova plugin specification, it can be installed using the Cordova / Phonegap command line interface.
phonegap plugin add cordova-plugin-advanced-http
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-advanced-httpAndroidBlacklistSecureSocketProtocols: define a blacklist of secure socket protocols for Android. This preference allows you to disable protocols which are considered unsafe. You need to provide a comma-separated list of protocols (check Android SSLSocket#protocols docu for protocol names).
e.g. blacklist SSLv3 and TLSv1:
<preference name="AndroidBlacklistSecureSocketProtocols" value="SSLv3,TLSv1" />- aborting sent requests is not working reliably
This plugin registers a global object located at cordova.plugin.http.
Check the Ionic docs for how to use this plugin with Ionic-native.
This returns an object representing a basic HTTP Authorization header of the form {'Authorization': 'Basic base64encodedusernameandpassword'}
var header = cordova.plugin.http.getBasicAuthHeader('user', 'password');This sets up all future requests to use Basic HTTP authentication with the given username and password.
cordova.plugin.http.useBasicAuth('user', 'password');Set a header for all future requests to a specified host. Takes a hostname, a header and a value (must be a string value or null).
cordova.plugin.http.setHeader('Hostname', 'Header', 'Value');You can also define headers used for all hosts by using wildcard character "*" or providing only two params.
cordova.plugin.http.setHeader('*', 'Header', 'Value');
cordova.plugin.http.setHeader('Header', 'Value');The hostname also includes the port number. If you define a header for www.example.com it will not match following URL http://www.example.com:8080.
// will match http://www.example.com/...
cordova.plugin.http.setHeader('www.example.com', 'Header', 'Value');
// will match http://www.example.com:8080/...
cordova.plugin.http.setHeader('www.example.com:8080', 'Header', 'Value');Set the data serializer which will be used for all future PATCH, POST and PUT requests. Takes a string representing the name of the serializer.
cordova.plugin.http.setDataSerializer('urlencoded');You can choose one of these:
urlencoded: send data as url encoded content in body- default content type "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
- data must be an dictionary style
Object
json: send data as JSON encoded content in body- default content type "application/json"
- data must be an
Arrayor an dictionary styleObject
utf8: send data as plain UTF8 encoded string in body- default content type "plain/text"
- data must be a
String
multipart: send FormData objects as multipart content in body- default content type "multipart/form-data"
- data must be an
FormDatainstance
raw: send data as is, without any processing- default content type "application/octet-stream"
- data must be an
Uint8Arrayor anArrayBuffer
This defaults to urlencoded. You can also override the default content type headers by specifying your own headers (see setHeader).
urlencoded does not support serializing deep structures whereas json does.
multipart depends on several Web API standards which need to be supported in your web view. Check out https://github.com/silkimen/cordova-plugin-advanced-http/wiki/Web-APIs-required-for-Multipart-requests for more info.
Set how long to wait for a request to respond, in seconds. For Android, this will set both connectTimeout and readTimeout. For iOS, this will set timeout interval. For browser platform, this will set timeout.
cordova.plugin.http.setRequestTimeout(5.0);Set connect timeout for Android
cordova.plugin.http.setRequestTimeout(5.0);Set read timeout for Android
cordova.plugin.http.setReadTimeout(5.0);Configure if it should follow redirects automatically. This defaults to true.
cordova.plugin.http.setFollowRedirect(true);Returns saved cookies (as string) matching given URL.
cordova.plugin.http.getCookieString(url);Add a custom cookie. Takes a URL, a cookie string and an options object. See ToughCookie documentation for allowed options. Cookie will persist until removed with removeCookies or clearCookies.
cordova.plugin.http.setCookie(url, cookie, options);Clear the cookie store.
cordova.plugin.http.clearCookies();These functions all take success and error callbacks as their last 2 arguments.
Set server trust mode, being one of the following values:
default: default SSL trustship and hostname verification handling using system's CA certslegacy: use legacy default behavior (< 2.0.3), excluding user installed CA certs (only for Android)nocheck: disable SSL certificate checking and hostname verification, trusting all certs (meant to be used only for testing purposes)pinned: trust only provided certificates
To use SSL pinning you must include at least one .cer SSL certificate in your app project. You can pin to your server certificate or to one of the issuing CA certificates. Include your certificate in the www/certificates folder. All .cer files found there will be loaded automatically.
// enable SSL pinning
cordova.plugin.http.setServerTrustMode('pinned', function() {
console.log('success!');
}, function() {
console.log('error :(');
});
// use system's default CA certs
cordova.plugin.http.setServerTrustMode('default', function() {
console.log('success!');
}, function() {
console.log('error :(');
});
// disable SSL cert checking, only meant for testing purposes, do NOT use in production!
cordova.plugin.http.setServerTrustMode('nocheck', function() {
console.log('success!');
}, function() {
console.log('error :(');
});Configure X.509 client certificate authentication. Takes mode and options. mode being one of following values:
none: disable client certificate authenticationsystemstore(only on Android): use client certificate installed in the Android system store; user will be presented with a list of all installed certificatesbuffer: use given client certificate; you will need to provide an options object:rawPkcs: ArrayBuffer containing raw PKCS12 container with client certificate and private keypkcsPassword: password of the PKCS container
// enable client auth using PKCS12 container given in ArrayBuffer `myPkcs12ArrayBuffer`
cordova.plugin.http.setClientAuthMode('buffer', {
rawPkcs: myPkcs12ArrayBuffer,
pkcsPassword: 'mySecretPassword'
}, success, fail);
// enable client auth using certificate in system store (only on Android)
cordova.plugin.http.setClientAuthMode('systemstore', {}, success, fail);
// disable client auth
cordova.plugin.http.setClientAuthMode('none', {}, success, fail);Remove all cookies associated with a given URL.
cordova.plugin.http.removeCookies(url, callback);Execute a HTTP request. Takes a URL and an options object. This is the internally used implementation of the following shorthand functions (post, get, put, patch, delete, head, uploadFile and downloadFile). You can use this function, if you want to override global settings for each single request. Check the documentation of the respective shorthand function for details on what is returned on success and failure.
encodeURI() for this purpose.
The options object contains following keys:
method: HTTP method to be used, defaults toget, needs to be one of the following values:get,post,put,patch,head,delete,options,upload,download
data: payload to be send to the server (only applicable onpost,putorpatchmethods)params: query params to be appended to the URL (only applicable onget,head,delete,uploadordownloadmethods)serializer: data serializer to be used (only applicable onpost,putorpatchmethods), defaults to global serializer value, see setDataSerializer for supported valuesresponseType: expected response type, defaults totext, needs to be one of the following values:text: data is returned as decoded string, use this for all kinds of string responses (e.g. XML, HTML, plain text, etc.)jsondata is treated as JSON and returned as parsed object, returnsundefinedwhen response body is emptyarraybuffer: data is returned as ArrayBuffer instance, returnsnullwhen response body is emptyblob: data is returned as Blob instance, returnsnullwhen response body is empty
timeout: timeout value for the request in seconds, defaults to global timeout valuefollowRedirect: enable or disable automatically following redirectsheaders: headers object (key value pair), will be merged with global valuesfilePath: file path(s) to be used during upload and download see uploadFile and downloadFile for detailed informationname: name(s) to be used during upload see uploadFile for detailed information
Here's a quick example:
const options = {
method: 'post',
data: { id: 12, message: 'test' },
headers: { Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' }
};
cordova.plugin.http.sendRequest('https://google.com/', options, function(response) {
// prints 200
console.log(response.status);
}, function(response) {
// prints 403
console.log(response.status);
//prints Permission denied
console.log(response.error);
});Execute a POST request. Takes a URL, data, and headers.
cordova.plugin.http.post('https://google.com/', {
test: 'testString'
}, {
Authorization: 'OAuth2: token'
}, function(response) {
console.log(response.status);
}, function(response) {
console.error(response.error);
});The success function receives a response object with 4 properties: status, data, url, and headers. status is the HTTP response code as numeric value. data is the response from the server as a string. url is the final URL obtained after any redirects as a string. headers is an object with the headers. The keys of the returned object are the header names and the values are the respective header values. All header names are lowercase.
Here's a quick example:
{
status: 200,
data: '{"id": 12, "message": "test"}',
url: 'http://example.net/rest'
headers: {
'content-length': '247'
}
}Most apis will return JSON meaning you'll want to parse the data like in the example below:
cordova.plugin.http.post('https://google.com/', {
id: 12,
message: 'test'
}, { Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' }, function(response) {
// prints 200
console.log(response.status);
try {
response.data = JSON.parse(response.data);
// prints test
console.log(response.data.message);
} catch(e) {
console.error('JSON parsing error');
}
}, function(response) {
// prints 403
console.log(response.status);
//prints Permission denied
console.log(response.error);
});The error function receives a response object with 4 properties: status, error, url, and headers (url and headers being optional). status is a HTTP response code or an internal error code. Positive values are HTTP status codes whereas negative values do represent internal error codes. error is the error response from the server as a string or an internal error message. url is the final URL obtained after any redirects as a string. headers is an object with the headers. The keys of the returned object are the header names and the values are the respective header values. All header names are lowercase.
Here's a quick example:
{
status: 403,
error: 'Permission denied',
url: 'http://example.net/noperm'
headers: {
'content-length': '247'
}
}cordova.plugin.http.ErrorCode. You can use it to check against internal error codes.
Execute a GET request. Takes a URL, parameters, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
cordova.plugin.http.get('https://google.com/', {
id: '12',
message: 'test'
}, { Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' }, function(response) {
console.log(response.status);
}, function(response) {
console.error(response.error);
});Execute a PUT request. Takes a URL, data, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
Execute a PATCH request. Takes a URL, data, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
Execute a DELETE request. Takes a URL, parameters, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
Execute a HEAD request. Takes a URL, parameters, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
Execute a OPTIONS request. Takes a URL, parameters, and headers. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
Uploads one or more file(s) saved on the device. Takes a URL, parameters, headers, filePath(s), and the name(s) of the parameter to pass the file along as. See the post documentation for details on what is returned on success and failure.
// e.g. for single file
const filePath = 'file:///somepicture.jpg';
const name = 'picture';
// e.g. for multiple files
const filePath = ['file:///somepicture.jpg', 'file:///somedocument.doc'];
const name = ['picture', 'document'];
cordova.plugin.http.uploadFile("https://google.com/", {
id: '12',
message: 'test'
}, { Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' }, filePath, name, function(response) {
console.log(response.status);
}, function(response) {
console.error(response.error);
});Downloads a file and saves it to the device. Takes a URL, parameters, headers, and a filePath. See post documentation for details on what is returned on failure. On success this function returns a cordova FileEntry object as first and the response object as second parameter.
cordova.plugin.http.downloadFile(
"https://google.com/",
{ id: '12', message: 'test' },
{ Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' },
'file:///somepicture.jpg',
// success callback
function(entry, response) {
// prints the filename
console.log(entry.name);
// prints the filePath
console.log(entry.fullPath);
// prints all header key/value pairs
Object.keys(response.headers).forEach(function (key) {
console.log(key, response.headers[key]);
});
},
// error callback
function(response) {
console.error(response.error);
}
);Abort a HTTP request. Takes the requestId which is returned by sendRequest and its shorthand functions (post, get, put, patch, delete, head, uploadFile and downloadFile).
If the request already has finished, the request will finish normally and the abort call result will be { aborted: false }.
If the request is still in progress, the request's failure callback will be invoked with response { status: -8 }, and the abort call result { aborted: true }.
abort(reqestId) will have no effect, i.e. the requests will finish as if the request was not cancelled.
// start a request and get its requestId
var requestId = cordova.plugin.http.downloadFile("https://google.com/", {
id: '12',
message: 'test'
}, { Authorization: 'OAuth2: token' }, 'file:///somepicture.jpg', function(entry, response) {
// prints the filename
console.log(entry.name);
// prints the filePath
console.log(entry.fullPath);
// prints the status code
console.log(response.status);
}, function(response) {
// if request was actually aborted, failure callback with status -8 will be invoked
if(response.status === -8){
console.log('download aborted');
} else {
console.error(response.error);
}
});
//...
// abort request
cordova.plugin.http.abort(requestId, function(result) {
// prints if request was aborted: true | false
console.log(result.aborted);
}, function(response) {
console.error(response.error);
});This plugin supports a very restricted set of functions on the browser platform. It's meant for testing purposes, not for production grade usage.
Following features are not supported:
- Manipulating Cookies
- Uploading and Downloading files
- Pinning SSL certificate
- Disabling SSL certificate check
- Disabling transparently following redirects (HTTP codes 3xx)
- Circumventing CORS restrictions
This plugin utilizes some awesome open source libraries:
- iOS - AFNetworking (MIT licensed)
- Android - http-request (MIT licensed)
- Cookie handling - tough-cookie (BSD-3-Clause licensed)
We made a few modifications to the networking libraries.
This plugin uses amazing cloud services to maintain quality. CI Builds and E2E testing are powered by:
First, install current package with npm install to fetch dev dependencies.
Then, to execute Javascript tests:
npm run test:jsAnd, to execute E2E tests:
- setup local Android sdk and emulators, or Xcode and simulators for iOS
- launch emulator or simulator
- install Appium (see Getting Started)
- start
appium
- start
- run
- updating client and server certificates, building test app, and running e2e tests
npm run test:android
npm run test:iosWe've set up a separate document for our contribution guidelines.
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