The CDVURLProtocol no longer exists, so how should we modify the interception?

[GymotgM]

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• (BOOL)canInitWithRequest:(NSURLRequest)theRequest { NSURL theUrl = [theRequest URL];

  if ([[theUrl absoluteString] hasPrefix:kEBCDVBundlePrefixes] || [[theUrl absoluteString] hasPrefix:kEBCDVFilePrefixes]) { return YES; } else { return [CDVURLProtocol canInitWithRequest:theRequest]; } }

• (void)startLoading { NSURL url = [[self request] URL]; if ([[url absoluteString] hasPrefix:kEBCDVBundlePrefixes] || [[url absoluteString] hasPrefix:kEBCDVFilePrefixes]) { NSString scheme = url.scheme; NSString fileName = url.host; NSString filePath = nil; if ([scheme isEqualToString:kEBCDVBundlePrefixes]) { filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:fileName ofType:nil]; } else { __block NSString appId = nil; dispatch_sync(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{ UIViewController currentVC = [Common currentViewController]; if ([currentVC isKindOfClass:[EBCDVViewController class]]) { appId = [(EBCDVViewController *)currentVC appId]; } }); filePath = [[Common getDocDirectoryOfApp:appId] stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName]; }

  if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:filePath]) {
      [self sendResponseWithResponseCode:404 data:nil mimeType:nil];
      return;
  }
  NSData *fileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:filePath];
  if (!fileData) {
      [self sendResponseWithResponseCode:404 data:nil mimeType:nil];
      return;
  }
  [self sendResponseWithResponseCode:200 data:fileData mimeType:nil];
  return;

  } else { [super startLoading]; } }

• (void)sendResponseWithResponseCode:(NSInteger)statusCode data:(NSData)data mimeType:(NSString)mimeType { if (mimeType == nil) { mimeType = @"text/plain"; }

  NSHTTPURLResponse* response = [[NSHTTPURLResponse alloc] initWithURL:[[self request] URL] statusCode:statusCode HTTPVersion:@"HTTP/1.1" headerFields:@{@"Content-Type" : mimeType}];

  [[self client] URLProtocol:self didReceiveResponse:response cacheStoragePolicy:NSURLCacheStorageNotAllowed]; if (data != nil) { [[self client] URLProtocol:self didLoadData:data]; } [[self client] URLProtocolDidFinishLoading:self]; }

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[jcesarmobile]

CDVURLProtocol only worked with the UIWebView which Apple doesn't allow to use since the end of 2020.

Cordova uses the WKWebView and custom scheme handlers, plugins can have an overrideSchemeTask method what Cordova's scheme handler check and let the plugin intercept the request instead of doing the default behavior.

Note that this only work for internal requests, for external requests you'll first need to replace the urls to point to the local scheme so they can intercepted, something like what proxy plugin does https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-proxy/blob/master/src/ios/WebviewProxy.m#L22

https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-proxy?tab=readme-ov-file#cordova-plugin-to-proxy-https-requests-on-ios-without-cors-and-cookie-restrictions

[GymotgM]

How to use WebviewProxy? Pod install cannot find this plugin, so I can only manually put the file into the project. After putting it into the project, how can I proceed to the - (BOOL) overrideSchemeTask: (id) urlSchemeTask method

[GymotgM]

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