Capacitor: feat: Native HTTP requests

[REPTILEHAUS]

As with most people I had been using cordova-plugin-advanced-http for native http requests in background thread, which is great, however today I find out that it has a dependency on cordova file plugin which is error'ing whenever I try to do an android build due to unsafe operations.

Its unfortunate as this is the last cordova plugin I am using and I am forced to use 2 cordova plugins as it has deps, even more unfortunate is that the dep is breaking my app in true cordova style.

It would be fantastic to have a capacitor functionality to pass HTTP requests to native APIs ! taking advantage of SSL pinning, background threading etc.

logged 2 issues:
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file/issues/359
https://github.com/silkimen/cordova-plugin-advanced-http/issues/271

[silviogutierrez]

I agree that first-class support for native HTTP would take Capacitor to the next level. No more CORS, preflight requests, etc.

I also use the Cordova plugin, and ran into the issues @REPTILEHAUS mentioned.

For reference, React Native bundles its own native HTTP library. Maybe it could serve as inspiration for Capacitor? https://github.com/facebook/react-native/tree/master/Libraries/Network

With all that said, thanks for a great library!

[Kepro]

yeah, that will be great! we also trying to migrate to the Capacitor and trying to get rid of Cordova plugins

[jcesarmobile]

Issues tagged with plugin request are closed but tracked for reactions to gauge interest.

[Blast06]

@Kepro @silviogutierrez @REPTILEHAUS Guys, did you find a solution ? or is there any other workaround for this? i've been strugling with cors, and im also can't solve the issues in the servers(i have tried, my backend is in laravel btw)

[Kepro]

cordova advanced http plugin is only one solution right now... or allow cors from your server

[jcesarmobile]

reopening since initial work has been done into a HTTP plugin
https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/2495

[digaus]

reopening since initial work has been done into a HTTP plugin

2495

Nice. Cordova Http plugins is only plugin which prevents me from fully converting to capacitor. Looking forward to the integrated solution.

Edit:
@jcesarmobile

Will there be a HttpBackend interface for Angular's HttpClient? So we can use it like ionic-native-http-connection-backend

[jcesarmobile]

closing, the plugin won't be core, has been released as @capacitor-community/http, see for more information https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/2495#issuecomment-636209159