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

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Corinne Krych <corinnekrych at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 18 Feb 2015, at 09:45, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Sebastien Blanc <scm.blanc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Matthias Wessendorf <matzew at apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Would we provide any advantage by using our iOS http lib and android
> Pipes over plain XMLHttpRequest ?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Ah! ok, that makes more sense - I was just wondering about this :-)
> >
> > 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?
>
To be honest I don't have one for the moment :) I was hoping on you ;) but
like Matzew said let's track this idea for later.


>
>
> > I doubt there is an immediate action needed, but feel free to track the
> idea on the AGCORDOVA jira instance
> >
> >
> > -Matthias
> >
> >
> > 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]
> >
> > Sébi
> > [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGSEC-196
> >
> > Envoyé de mon iPhone
> >
> > Début du message transféré :
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> 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 -
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/nextopio/nextop-client/blob/master/docs/02.16.2015_CUSTOM_XMLHTTPREQUEST.md
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Brien
> >>
> >>
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