I have been working on Xamarin for Android and I have a problem accessing localhost from WebView. Yes, I know that on emulators and devices one can not access localhost so I installed Conveyor by Keyoti which gives me access to my localhost through MYIP:PORT. Localhost is setup to redirect to CAS server login that my application needs as initial login. The main problem is that webview is not showing anything but if I try to access for e.g google.com it will show main page of google. Also, I am using Navigated and Navigating properties and I always get to Navigated property which outputs Loaded.. on the screen. Furthermore, if I try to access this "https://myip:45456" through google chrome on my device or through new incognito window it works like a charm but refuses to work inside of a webview.
Here is some xaml code that I tried because there is not much going on in the code-behind:
<WebView VerticalOptions="FillAndExpand" HorizontalOptions="FillAndExpand"
Navigated="WebView_Navigated" Navigating="WebView_Navigating"
Source = "myip:45456">
</WebView>
I'm really not getting what the problem is, so if anybody has experience in this area, help would be much appreciated.
EDIT:
After losing my head around this I've found out the problem lays in certificates and I'm getting this output message: Failed to validate the certificate chain, error: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
I have tried couple of other solutions such as: Xamarin Android issue connecting via HTTPS to site with self-signed certificate: "Trust anchor for certification path not found."
and workaround with ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback +=
(sender, cert, chain, sslPolicyErrors) => true in MainActivity but it's still showing the same error.
Maybe it is something in configuration, but I can't find what it is?! :(
