Not allowed to load local resource about cordova-plugin-contacts

[RazaGR]

I found this on webview https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview

If you are currently using content:// URLs to load files from a content provider in your application, note that these URLs only work when accessed from local content. That is, web content hosted outside your application is not allowed to access files built into your application.

what does this mean?

[RazaGR]

Well since thew newer webview doesn't support content:// URLs I have created a PR, it converts all content:// URLs to base64 image.

PR here #182

[Bramzor]

@Divxtaman Thanks for the PR but it does not seem to work for me. Also its not a good solution as pulling all the content of the pictures over cordova will probably only slow it down. That is why local storage is used.
I put some time into this issue and indeed, it seems that the new webview (cordova-plugin-ionic-webview) does not allow the browser to access files on the device itself. Security wise this is a good thing, but it blocks using content:// on android or using /var/... on iOS. So actually both Android and iOS are blocked by this. I figured out that there is already a PR request for this and already merged (ionic-team/cordova-plugin-ionic-webview#242) that will solve this issue by rewriting the URLs to a proxy that will allow you to access the local content. I was not able to try this PR yet but it should solve the issue. Currently I'm using a workaround for iOS which is putting 'http://localhost:8080/_file_' in front of the photo which does work. For android I currently just ignore the photo.

[timbru31]

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