# Updating Ionic Native Plugins problems

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-native-plugins-problems/168532>\
**Category:** Capacitor\
**Created:** [July 12, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-native-plugins-problems/168532 "2019-07-12T19:30:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![sroussey1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@sroussey1](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/sroussey1)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-native-plugins-problems/168532/1 "2019-07-12T19:30:03Z")

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When using `cordova-plugin-advanced-http` and `@ionic-native/http` it works great on mobile apps (via capacitor), but on website/electron I get an error. On web it fails as there is no cordova object on window. Electron says:

```auto
Native: tried calling HTTP.get, but the HTTP plugin is not installed.
Install the HTTP plugin: 'ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-advanced-http'

```

So I am using Capacitor, but not Ionic Framework, so the suggestion is odd and goes against the Capacitor instructions:

[https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/cordova/using-cordova-plugins/](https://capacitor.ionicframework.com/docs/cordova/using-cordova-plugins/)

Where it says (but I am substituting the example names with the ones I used):

```auto
npm install @ionic-native/http
npm install cordova-plugin-advanced-http
npx cap sync

```

This seemed to work just fine on iOS. But failed as described above. So at this point I install cordova and ionic cli tools. So I can follow their instructions:

```auto
npm install -g cordova ionic
ionic integrations enable cordova --add
ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-advanced-http

```

This added a lot of files to the project, but did not fix the issue at hand. So now what do I do?

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**Author:** ![jcesarmobile](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/jcesarmobile/32/127095_2.png) [@jcesarmobile](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/jcesarmobile)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2019, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/updating-ionic-native-plugins-problems/168532/2 "2019-07-16T12:30:06Z")

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Cordova plugin support is only available for iOS and Android, not for web/electron.  
Subscribe this issue if you want to get notified once it gets implemented

> <https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/769>