Why does Cordova 2.7.0 JS seemingly no longer work on remote pages?

Question

Background

I\'m attempting to upgrade an iOS app built on Cordova 2.0 to version 2.7.

It\'s basically a welcome screen that points to a remote search engine (p

Answer 1

I had a similar problem relating to upgrading to Cordova 2.7. However my problem was all my console.logs stopped firing when running the app. I couldn't figure out why for the life of me this was happening. I thought it was because I upgraded jquery.mobile. That wasn't it. I then thought it was an .htaccess issue, that wasn't it either. It turns out, it was Cordova 2.7 that was causing this problem.

I did try adding the .json file on my server, that did not fix the issue.

The fix was going into the 2.7 source and commenting out the following code:

/*comment out this as it is breaking console.logs
    var xhr = new context.XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.onload = function() {
        // If the response is a JSON string which composes an array, call handlePluginsObject.
        // If the request fails, or the response is not a JSON array, just call finishPluginLoading.
        var obj = this.responseText && JSON.parse(this.responseText);
        if (obj && obj instanceof Array && obj.length > 0) {
            handlePluginsObject(obj);
        } else {
            finishPluginLoading();
        }
    };
    xhr.onerror = function() {
        finishPluginLoading();
    };
    xhr.open('GET', 'cordova_plugins.json', true); // Async
    xhr.send();
    */

Replace entire block with a call to the following function:

finishPluginLoading();

My logs are now working again. Only took me 3 days scratching my head.

Hope this helps someone with a similar problem.