App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP resource

Question

I am using Socket.IO library in swift and I keep getting this error:

App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource

Answer 1

You need to correct it like this:

To make it easier, this is the correct xml in the info.plist

NSAppTransportSecurity
    
        NSExceptionDomains
        
            localhost
            
                NSIncludesSubdomains
                
                NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads
                
                NSTemporaryExceptionMinimumTLSVersion
                TLSv1.1
            
        
    

change the localhost to your actual server

Check the table for NSAppTransportSecurity options

If you want to all communications with any domain, you can do this:

 NSAppTransportSecurity
    
        NSAllowsArbitraryLoads
        
    

However, you should use the latest just in the developing phase.