Error: Whitelist rejection in Phonegap

53
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I'm new to mobile development. I'm using Phonegap/Cordova to create a cross-platform app. My code works well on Android but when I'm porting it to iPhone it's showing an error:

[143:2003] ERROR whitelist rejection: url="abc"

Now can I overcome this problem?

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Use cordova's white-list pugin. Worked for me on both android and IOS platforms without any other mentioned changes. github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-whitelist – Zeeshan Cornelius

7 Answers

54
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Notice: This answer only applies for PhoneGap version 1.x and below. From version 2.x onwards, whitelist configuration is done via cordova.xml.

You have to add allowed URLs into PhoneGap.plist's (or Cordova.plist) ExternalHosts array.

For example, if you want to allow access to this URL http://www.myhost.com/path/file, then add www.myhost.com as a new entry to ExternalHosts array.

If you want to allow access to content on all the subdomain of Google (e.g. maps.google.com, mails.google.com), you can add *.google.com as a new entry to ExternalHosts array.

I am not sure why you get "abc" in the link, though. Do you have "abc" as a link to anything? Is it URI fragment?

32
votes

In PhoneGap 3.0, you need to edit config.xml in Project folder (note: not the www/config.xml)

<access origin="*" />
18
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In PhoneGap 3.0, you need to edit www/config.xml, and add/edit <access> tags. For example, if you want to allow everything, change the tag to:

<access origin="*" />
8
votes

You can add this following code in Cordova.plist file:

<key>ExternalHosts</key>
       <array>
               <string>*.facebook.com</string>
       </array>

With *.facebook.com as the domain name, you can use two different sub-domains.

3
votes

You will have to Domain Whitelist so you can access outside domains such as http://google.com.

In iOS (Cordova > 3.0.0), the whitelisting rules are found in AppName/config.xml and declared with the element <access origin="..." />

You can also use wildcards to declare domains. For example, to allow access to all subdomains and TLDs (.com, .net, etc) of Google, use *.google.*

Reference: Domain Whitelist Guide

0
votes

Even I got the same issue... I fixed it in the below way..In cordova.plist--> under ExternalHosts array menu, add an item as * or .. So it allows all the external links... if u have to mention one by one mention it as .facebook.,*.google.* etc.

0
votes

This is because phonegap won't take external urls .For phonegap older versions below 2.x we need to set url in cordova.plist like this.

ex:*.google.co.in(u can put your url after *. this) and OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView---to ---YES.