[aerogear-dev] Fwd: I replaced XMLHttpRequest and image loading with a plugin, and wrote up my experiences

[Corinne Krych]

> On 18 Feb 2015, at 09:45, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Sébastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi !
> I just wanted to share that interesting post from the Cordova dev list. It shows how to delegate XMLHttpRequest and image loading to a native implementation.
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> Would we provide any advantage by using our iOS http lib and android Pipes over plain XMLHttpRequest ? 
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> Not sure I am really following your thoughts, but isn't that what we are already doing inside e.g. the push plugin? the actual HTTP stack is part of our native libs, instead of XHR
> sure that is what we do for Push, but I was not thinking of Push, was more thinking of a "AeroGear http" plugin that people could use for all their http calls but again no idea if that brings any advantage over regular XHR. 
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> Ah! ok, that makes more sense - I was just wondering about this :-)
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> Regarding Android-Pipes, since they over more than just HTTP, I am not sure if all of that is easy to integrate into the cordova web-view (e.g. Lifecycle and Activity hooks). But perhaps it's worth - at some point - to take a look at that.

interesting indeed.
I just don’t have a use case in mind… do you have one Sebi?


> I doubt there is an immediate action needed, but feel free to track the idea on the AGCORDOVA jira instance
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> -Matthias
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> Also check the reply where another one have used the same approach to add certificate pinning , that could be an interesting source of inspiration since I know cert pinning is on the security roadmap [1]
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> Sébi
> [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-196
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> Envoyé de mon iPhone
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>> Expéditeur: Brien Colwell <brien at nextop.io>
>> Date: 17 février 2015 11:42:48 UTC+1
>> Destinataire: dev at cordova.apache.org
>> Objet: I replaced XMLHttpRequest and image loading with a plugin, and wrote up my experiences
>> Répondre à: dev at cordova.apache.org
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>> Hi All,
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>> I spent some time researching how much of the webview network stack I could replace with a Cordova plugin on Android. I wrote a post about it -
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>> https://github.com/nextopio/nextop-client/blob/master/docs/02.16.2015_CUSTOM_XMLHTTPREQUEST.md
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>> The take away is that a Cordova can fully replacing the default XHR and image loading in the webview for async=true, but it can't do async=false (but who uses that anyway :/). This is cool because plugins can experiment with new wire protocols to get data to the client.
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>> Best,
>> Brien
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