How to perform Ajax call with the HTTPS protocol in Phonegap Android?

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I am new to Android. I am developing an app in Phonegap and implemented ajax calls to communicate with the server using the HTTPS protocol. It's working fine when I set debuggable to true in the manifest file. If I change it to false, it's not working. Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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The web service you're using needs to have a valid cert, one that is not self signed. Otherwise SSL will fail.

See here

edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 11 '13 at 05:19

Another issue which occurs in Android 4.0+ (but not in older versions like 2.3)... is you have to manually set the Authorization header in before send. Using the new username: password: options added in jQuery 1.7 do NOT work.

The example below illustrates what you have to do.
Note: This requires the base64 jquery plugin.

 $.ajax({
            url: "https://yoururl,
            type: method,
            dataType: 'json',
            // username: username,  // Doesn't work on ANDROID
            // password: password,  // Doesn't work on ANDROID
            beforeSend: function (xhr)
            {
                xhr.setRequestHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + $.base64.encode( username + ":" + password ));
            },
            data: options.data,
            success: function(response) {

            },
            error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {

            }
        });

How to perform Ajax call with the HTTPS protocol in Phonegap Android?

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