There was an error with the request: Cleartext HTTP traffic to localhost not permitted

Capacitor
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I am working on ionic 4 using capacitor. I tried to call an api from localhost but am getting this error

There was an error with the request: Cleartext HTTP traffic to localhost not permitted !!

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That message suggests two courses of action, both of which sound like great ideas to me:

  • put the backend somewhere other than localhost
  • interact with it via HTTPS