Issue with CapacitorHttp on iOS

Capacitor
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I recently switched HTTP calls from the Cordova plugin to CapacitorHttp, and having sporadic issues with IOS (only).

Using the latest Ionic 7.2.2 and Capacitor 5.2.2. Running against a back-end web service in the cloud using “https”.

Everything works fine for Android, and in the Web App – but iOS is failing every other call. Here is what I see in my logs for iOS:

Successful call to API, but just before call is made:
… [NSURLSession sharedSession] may not be invalidated

Unsuccessful call to API, after it has failed:
… (NSURLErrorDomain error -1000.)",“message”:“The operation couldn’t be completed”

The above cycle repeats consistently with the pattern as … works, fails, works, fails, etc…

For the life of me I cannot find anything online that indicates what these errors are and how they pertain to my usage of CapacitorHttp. There must be some specific configuration needed for iOS – any ideas? Who else has this working and care to share what your code looks like? I am following the tutorial/examples…

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Hi,

I have the same issue, did you have a chance to solve it ?

could you please told me ?

Regards,

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I have not found a solution yet. I suspect that some sort of initialization of the HTTP session is occurring (or needs to occur) within the plugin for Apple/iOS. However somebody must have this working so hopefully they can point the way

4

Could you please post here if you find any solution?

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Figured it out, though I’m not sure why it worked 50% of the time without this for iOS, nor why it always worked for Android/web.

The line of code I was missing is simply this:

url = encodeURI(url);

Annoyingly, I had this line for the Cordova plugin I used before Capacitor. Anyway, I hope this helps someone out there who may run into the same issue.