GET method network requests (HTTP and HTTPS) no longer work in Corona for iOS 9

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#1

GET method network requests (HTTP and HTTPS) no longer work in Corona for iOS 9

network.request ("http://url.php",“GET”,webListener)

network.request ("https://url.php",“GET”,webListener)

Everything worked fine before.

I just verified that the HTTP and HTTPS still work on my iPhone 5 running iOS 8.2

Also, here is my Terminal log:

Sep 22 18:24:56 iPhone appName[2012] <Warning>: GO:https://www.domain.com/url.php
Sep 22 18:24:57 iPhone appName[2012] <Warning>: NSURLSession/NSURLConnection HTTP load failed (kCFStreamErrorDomainSSL, -9802)
Sep 22 18:24:57 iPhone appName[2012] <Warning>: ERROR: network request failed: https://www.domain.com/url.php [-1200: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made.]
Sep 22 18:24:58 iPhone SpringBoard[1291] <Warning>: BSXPCMessage received error for message: Connection interrupted
Sep 22 18:24:59 iPhone appName[2012] <Warning>: GO:https://www.domain.com/url.php
Sep 22 18:24:59 iPhone SpringBoard[1291] <Warning>: UNNotificationRegistrarConnectionListener connection invalidated

#2

system.openURL​ seems to fail as well in iOS 9. I had the problem on my iPhone. I tested it on my iPad, I opened the link before I installed iOS 9 it worked, when I upgraded to iOS 9 it doesn’t open the link. I’m using daily build 2015.2721.

#3

This looks like an ATS issue.

#4

Thank you, you are right. The ATS link you provided explains it all. To solve this, which I’ve now tested works fine on my iPhone 6 Plus (v9 iOS), I’ve done two things:

  1. I’ve whitelisted the links in the plist of my build.settings as follows:

settings =
 {
  iphone =
   {
    plist =
     {
      NSAppTransportSecurity =
       {
        NSExceptionDomains =
         {
          [“example.com”] =
           {
            NSIncludesSubdomains = true,
            NSThirdPartyExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads = true
           },
         },
       },
     },
   },
 }

  1. I’ve contacted my server hosting provider and asked them to upgrade my SSL certificate from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256), after which, I should ‘possibly’ be able to remove the whitelisting above.

Hope this helps someone - if it does, please let us know.

#5

system.openURL​ seems to fail as well in iOS 9. I had the problem on my iPhone. I tested it on my iPad, I opened the link before I installed iOS 9 it worked, when I upgraded to iOS 9 it doesn’t open the link. I’m using daily build 2015.2721.

#6

This looks like an ATS issue.

#7

Thank you, you are right. The ATS link you provided explains it all. To solve this, which I’ve now tested works fine on my iPhone 6 Plus (v9 iOS), I’ve done two things:

  1. I’ve whitelisted the links in the plist of my build.settings as follows:

settings =
 {
  iphone =
   {
    plist =
     {
      NSAppTransportSecurity =
       {
        NSExceptionDomains =
         {
          [“example.com”] =
           {
            NSIncludesSubdomains = true,
            NSThirdPartyExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads = true
           },
         },
       },
     },
   },
 }

  1. I’ve contacted my server hosting provider and asked them to upgrade my SSL certificate from SHA1 to SHA2 (SHA256), after which, I should ‘possibly’ be able to remove the whitelisting above.

Hope this helps someone - if it does, please let us know.