PhoneGap Ajax call to HTTPS server with self-signed certificate fails

Question

I am relatively new to phonegap and I have recently set up HTTPS/SSL on my windows apache server with a self signed certificate and am trying to make an HTTPS ajax post requ

Answer 1

I spent hours on this issue until I found that there is a quick and dirty fix possible. It involves overriding CordovaWebViewClient to ignore certificate errors.