Saturday, January 2, 2016

Resolve App Transport Security Exceptions in iOS 9 and OSX 10.11

Hello,

Recently I was working on an old iOS application for my client. This app was developed on iOS 7 and we were adding few updates, I was using iOS 9 SDK on my Xcode. While development I found that none of the web services were working on app. In short app was not able to get data from remote URLs. I show the logs and there was App Transport Security Exception.

Let's first understand what is App Transport Security (ATS).

At WWDC 2015, Apple announced “App Transport Security” for iOS 9 and OSX 10.11 El Capitan. The “What’s New in iOS” guide for iOS 9 explains:

App Transport Security (ATS) lets an app add a declaration to its Info.plist file that specifies the domains with which it needs secure communication. ATS prevents accidental disclosure, provides secure default behavior, and is easy to adopt. You should adopt ATS as soon as possible, regardless of whether you’re creating a new app or updating an existing one.

If you’re developing a new app, you should use HTTPS exclusively. If you have an existing app, you should use HTTPS as much as you can right now, and create a plan for migrating the rest of your app as soon as possible.

In simple terms, this means that if your application attempts to connect to any HTTP server (in this example, yourserver.com) that doesn’t support the latest SSL technology (TLSv1.2), your connections will fail with an error like this:

CFNetwork SSLHandshake failed (-9801)
Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo=0x7fb080442170 {NSURLErrorFailingURLPeerTrustErrorKey=, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=-9802, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fb08055bc00 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error -1200.)", NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://yourserver.com, NSErrorFailingURLStringKey=https://yourserver.com, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3}

In short app should have all the remote calls with Https protocol. How ever in my case it was not possible as my client refused to install SSL certificate. So I have to bypass App Transport Security.

So here how to do this. Open your project in Xcode and open info.plist file and add following key.

App Transport Security Settings



Now add one more key under that key which you added above. Following is the name of key.

Allow Arbitrary Loads and set it's value to YES. After adding both keys your info.plist should look as below.



That's it and now all your services should work with http protocols.



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