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I am unable to post to a server in swift 5, XCode Version 11.6 (11E708), and iOS 13.6. I am receiving this error:

2020-08-26 08:20:55.252545-0400 iris[1642:721953] Task <BBB3809B-7BEF-4F60-9685-774027ADA7E6>.<1> finished with error [-1022] Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1022 "The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x2810ad710 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1022 "(null)"}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://localhost:8000/searchImage/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://localhost:8000/searchImage/, NSLocalizedDescription=The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection.}
error=Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1022 "The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x2810ad710 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1022 "(null)"}, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=http://localhost:8000/searchImage/, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://localhost:8000/searchImage/, NSLocalizedDescription=The resource could not be loaded because the App Transport Security policy requires the use of a secure connection.}

I have followed this question How can I delete derived data in Xcode 8? and updated my info.plist

<key> App Transport Security Settings </key>
<dict>
    <key> Allow Arbitrary Loads </key>
    <true />

Note I don't care about security at this point. Additionally, I've tried a clean build and then deleted my derived data folder, but still I cannot post to the server. In another project I set this key in Info.plist and everything was fine. Any suggestions?

sin tribu
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If you edit info.plist from as source code, to allow all domains, change the values like:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/> 
</dict>

Then it should look like below as Property List:

enter image description here

or

For a better way, you can disable it by default and add exceptions for specific domains like below.

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <false/>
    <key>NSExceptionDomains</key>
    <dict>
        <key>yourdomain.com</key>
        <dict>
            <key>NSExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>
            <true/>
            <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key>
            <true/>
        </dict>
    </dict>
</dict>

enter image description here

Omer Faruk Ozturk
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  • Thanks for your response. In addition to adding your suggestions to Info.plist, I had to add the following to the projects entitelments ```com.apple.security.network.server Boolean True``` and ```com.apple.security.network.client Boolean True``` – sin tribu Aug 26 '20 at 13:44
  • @sin tribe can you expand on how you do this? – David Crook Jun 19 '23 at 20:19
  • @David Crook - sorry, I haven't worked with xcode/switft a whole lot since this time and don't really remember. – sin tribu Jun 22 '23 at 13:17
  • No worries, I got it to work. Can't remember what I did, but its working. – David Crook Jul 12 '23 at 14:48
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Opened your Project target's info.plist file and added a Key called NSAppTransportSecurity as a Dictionary.

Add NSAllowsArbitraryLoads as Boolean and set its value to YES under NSAppTransportSecurity as like following image - enter image description here

Abdul Motalab Rakib
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