1.3-beta.11 / iOS / iFrame / <allow-navigation> / App.accessRule

adamginsburg · April 4, 2016, 10:17am

Are you seeing constand reloads of the app. I just installed to my actual phone pointing to an external server and I see:

Serving asset bundle version: 1f77520e4f43012e6497dedbf72f74474265d30b
2016-04-04 20:14:00.780 Buzzy[757:420356] ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'
2016-04-04 20:14:12.561 Buzzy[757:421105] App startup timed out, reverting to last known good version
2016-04-04 20:14:12.576 Buzzy[757:420356] Serving asset bundle version: 1f77520e4f43012e6497dedbf72f74474265d30b
2016-04-04 20:14:17.543 Buzzy[757:420356] ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'
2016-04-04 20:14:32.578 Buzzy[757:421203] App startup timed out, reverting to last known good version
2016-04-04 20:14:32.592 Buzzy[757:420356] Serving asset bundle version: 1f77520e4f43012e6497dedbf72f74474265d30b

I can’t actuallt get it to login in… I guess it keeps refreshing mid-login.

Alternatively, when I ran via Simulator, also pointing to the same server version, it seems to work.

ryenbeatty · April 4, 2016, 10:20am

Hi @adamginsburg, I’m not actually, Meteor isn’t even bootstrapping (ie. no global ‘Meteor’ in Safari console).

martijnwalraven · April 4, 2016, 10:22am

Those reloads occur because the Meteor.startup() callbacks do not complete within the default 20 second timeout. It seems as if one of them might be failing.

I’m not sure where those attempts to navigate to about:blank that you an @ryenbeatty experience come from. Do you have any additional packages installed?

ryenbeatty · April 4, 2016, 10:25am

This is my packages file:

# core
meteor-base
mongo
ecmascript
es5-shim
tracker
random
templating
check
 
# css
kit:cssnext-basscss

# mobile
mobile-experience 

# layout  
thereactivestack:blazetoreact
aldeed:template-extension
 
# accounts
accounts-base
accounts-password
useraccounts:core
useraccounts:unstyled 
gwendall:remote-ddp 
ongoworks:ddp-login

# utility 
skinnygeek1010:flux-helpers
zimme:active-route
momentjs:moment
gwendall:remote-autoupdate
lukemadera:social-share
matteodem:easy-search
mdg:reload-on-resume

As far as I can see, the only mobile specific ones would be reload-on-resume and mobile-experience

lucfranken · April 4, 2016, 10:26am

We have seen this with iFrame which don’t yet have a file loads. Looks like the default value of an iFrame is about:blank.

martijnwalraven · April 4, 2016, 10:28am

Not sure if this is related, but looking at gwendall:remote-autoupdate this will definitely not work with Meteor 1.3.

ryenbeatty · April 4, 2016, 11:00am

Ah nice one, thanks for pointing that out, should have checked! However no luck, removing that has same result.

adamginsburg · April 4, 2016, 12:08pm

I wonder if the blank issue I was having was around trying to redirect to an external site in the inapp browsers? ie My app is at https://buzzy.buzz and I have www.buzzy.buzz (externally hosted “brochure” site) when not logged in. So if you hit https://buzzy.buzz and was not logged in, I was doing the redirect with a window.location = http://www.buzzy.buzz. That site has hard codes links back to https://buzzy.buzz.

I am not sure if there is a better way to do this? Obviously, in a browser this works fine… it just seems to get hung up in Cordova (ie not sure if it’s “layering” in app browsers when navigating to the external site and then back to the cordova app?

martijnwalraven · April 4, 2016, 1:40pm

I’m not sure I understand the whole scenario, but you’ll want to make sure to set App.accessRules for all sites you’re navigating to. Also, links back to https://buzzy.buzz would take you to your web app, and not the Cordova app (which is served from localhost:<port> on the device).

adamginsburg · April 26, 2016, 3:10am

Thanks @martijnwalraven I have the core scenario working now.
I still have 2 issues I need help with please:

I am getting @ryenbeatty issue

ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'

I can’t see google docs in an iFrame on Cordova (works fine on desktop). I have the following in my mobile-config.js below

    App.accessRule('*.google.com/*', { type: 'navigation' } ); 
   App.accessRule('*.googleapis.com/*', { type: 'navigation' } );
  App.accessRule('*.gstatic.com/*', { type: 'navigation' } );

I am also using Browser Policy

  BrowserPolicy.content.allowOriginForAll('*.google.com');
  BrowserPolicy.content.allowOriginForAll('*.googleapis.com');

Any ideas pls?

lucfranken · April 26, 2016, 7:02am

You have an iframe? Add a url (can be to an empty page) to load. Add that url preferably in the html code. If there is no url a browser will load about:blank, if there is an url it won’t happen.
No error?

adamginsburg · April 26, 2016, 10:37am

@lucfranken thanks

re #1 - I am not sure where this is happening - perhaps it’s the Google doc iFrame? Ie #2 below. When I check the source it seems like there are multiple iFrames for things various 3rd party things like Stripe.

yep #2 - no errors I can see in XCode or the console. I can include iFrames for other sites like youtube, vimeo etc… all works OK on Cordova
An iFrame to googleDocs works fine on the site (so BrowserPolicy seems OK) but when on Cordova it’s just blank and I cannot see an error.

In the past I had cors issues and I’d see it on the console, although that was Meteor 1.2 not 1.31

So could #1 cause #2?

martijnwalraven · April 26, 2016, 1:21pm

It seems the iframe is indeed not loading correctly and trying to load about:blank instead.

BrowserPolicy is not used on Cordova, but it includes a permissive set of CSP settings.

Could you try remote debugging with Safari to see if you get more detailed errors?

adamginsburg · April 28, 2016, 9:16am

HI, where’s the console from XCode:

2016-04-28 19:12:46.051 Buzzy[1459:431395] DiskCookieStorage changing policy from 2 to 0, cookie file: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/<long string>/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
2016-04-28 19:12:46.136 Buzzy[1459:431395] Apache Cordova native platform version 4.1.0 is starting.
2016-04-28 19:12:46.136 Buzzy[1459:431395] Multi-tasking -> Device: YES, App: YES
2016-04-28 19:12:46.144 Buzzy[1459:431395] 

Started backup to iCloud! Please be careful.
Your application might be rejected by Apple if you store too much data.
For more information please read "iOS Data Storage Guidelines" at:
https://developer.apple.com/icloud/documentation/data-storage/
To disable web storage backup to iCloud, set the BackupWebStorage preference to "local" in the Cordova config.xml file

2016-04-28 19:12:46.197 Buzzy[1459:431395] Using WKWebView
2016-04-28 19:12:46.198 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][handleopenurl] 0.057995ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.201 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][intentandnavigationfilter] 3.178000ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.201 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][gesturehandler] 0.063002ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.301 Buzzy[1459:431395] Serving asset bundle version: d57009ee64c8f614689f89e96087a140487fb304
[INFO] GCDWebServer started on port 12456 and reachable at http://localhost:12456/
2016-04-28 19:12:46.303 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][webapplocalserver] 102.077007ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.308 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][statusbar] 4.920006ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.319 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][splashscreen] 10.930002ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.321 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][file] 1.401007ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.321 Buzzy[1459:431395] [CDVTimer][TotalPluginStartup] 123.304009ms
2016-04-28 19:12:46.595 Buzzy[1459:431395] active
2016-04-28 19:12:50.046 Buzzy[1459:431395] THREAD WARNING: ['Device'] took '22.695068' ms. Plugin should use a background thread.
2016-04-28 19:12:50.203 Buzzy[1459:431395] ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'
2016-04-28 19:12:50.232 Buzzy[1459:431395] Domain: localhost
2016-04-28 19:12:50.232 Buzzy[1459:431395] FROALAKEY: 
2016-04-28 19:12:50.425 Buzzy[1459:431395] Push Plugin register called
2016-04-28 19:12:50.836 Buzzy[1459:431395] ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'
2016-04-28 19:12:50.837 Buzzy[1459:431395] ERROR Internal navigation rejected - <allow-navigation> not set for url='about:blank'
2016-04-28 19:12:51.032 Buzzy[1459:431395] network
2016-04-28 19:12:51.867 Buzzy[1459:431395] Push Plugin register success: <3long string>
2016-04-28 19:12:52.190 Buzzy[1459:431395] active
2016-04-28 19:12:52.239 Buzzy[1459:431395] Push Plugin register success:

martijnwalraven · April 28, 2016, 3:33pm

Could you try remote debugging with Safari? That may give you more detailed information about which network requests are failing.

adamginsburg · April 29, 2016, 5:47am

@martijnwalraven I understand that the Safari console will only open after the app is already open so too late to get that initial debugging, unless you know of a way to open it prior to clicking the app? (I did try the “Automatically show Inspector for JS contexts” ) the inspector flashes up closes a few times… but eventually closes with nothing on it.

martijnwalraven · April 29, 2016, 1:05pm

You can use window.location.reload() from the Safari console to reload the app.

adamginsburg · April 29, 2016, 1:39pm

Thanks

I am using the package The trusted source for JavaScript packages, Meteor.js resources and tools | Atmosphere should I be using something else?

martijnwalraven · April 29, 2016, 1:44pm

This is a known issue with mizzao:timesync and Meteor 1.3, and a pull request has been submitted but doesn’t seem to be merged yet.

I don’t think this explains your original issue however, because XHRs do not result in navigation to about:blank.

adamginsburg · April 29, 2016, 2:19pm

Ah, one thing I did overnight was I upgraded to Meteor 1.3.2.4 and it seems like the “about:blank” issues have gone. Could this have fixed it my #1 issue?

This also seems to have resolved the #2 issue and the Google Docs iFrames are now working too. Thanks heaps for the help. Yay!

BTW, the reason I had not upgraded from Meteor 1.3.1 previously, is I had a blocking issue around Bootstrap that seemed to stop working on 1.3.2.4… I moved from the https://atmospherejs.com/nemo64/bootstrap package to https://atmospherejs.com/huttonr/bootstrap3