cordova-network-interceptor
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network interceptor for cordova app that will fix all protocol relative url requests to use https
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cordova-network-interceptor
Network interceptor for cordova app that will fix all protocol relative url requests to use https
Cordova is essentially a web view that serves files from the file system. As such, the protocl of the "url" it uses is file: (e.g. file://android_assets/www/index.html).
It is a common practice when writing modules, to reference urls to be used using the "relative protocol" // (e.g. //www.googleapis.com/widget.js).
In cordova, this causes the url to be fetched with the file: protocol, which causes faliures and unloaded external libraries.
For example, //www.googleapis.com/widget.js will be translated to file://www.googleapis.com/widget.js.
To overcome the issue, the library will monkey patch a few things to force the urls to be using the https: protocol.
The library performs 4 operations:
- Patch the
document.createElementmethod, which is used (amongst other things) to add dynamic scripts to be fetched by the browser. The patch will alter the scriptsrcproperty if needed to use a proper protocol. - Patch the
Imageconstructor, which is commonly used to fire pixels. The patch will alter the imagesrcproperty if needed to use a proper protocol. - Patch the
XMLHttpRequestobject, to alter the url if needed to use a proper protocol, before the request is being executed. - Patch the
fetchAPI, to alter the url if needed to use a proper protocol, before the request is being executed.
So, for example, if any script, no matter how fetched and when, will use //www.googleapis.com/widget.js as its source, it will be translated and fetched by the https://www.googleapis.com/widget.js correct url.
Installation
npm install cordova-network-interceptor --saveor
yarn add cordova-network-interceptorUsage
Add at the TOP of the <head> element
<script src="node_modules/cordova-network-interceptor/dist/index.js"></script>Credits
The code introduced here is inspired by a mesh up of code examples taken from:
- https://www.phpied.com/intercepting-new-image-src-requests/
- https://stackoverflow.com/a/629724/2242402
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45425169/intercept-fetch-api-responses-and-request-in-javascript
- https://medium.com/snips-ai/how-to-block-third-party-scripts-with-a-few-lines-of-javascript-f0b08b9c4c0