Allow unverified ssl certificate in UIWebview

Question

I\'m embedding a website in a UIWebView. During development I have it pointed at localhost. The problem is that whenever it hits a \"https://\" url it doesn\'t load. When I

Answer 1

In iOS 9, SSL connections will fail for all invalid or self-signed certificates. This is the default behavior of the new App Transport Security feature in iOS 9.0 or later, and on OS X 10.11 and later.

You can override this behavior in the Info.plist, by setting NSAllowsArbitraryLoads to YES in the NSAppTransportSecurity dictionary. However, I recommend overriding this setting for testing purposes only.

For information see App Transport Technote here.