On 7/11/2016 7:05 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Hi all, > > Many LiveCode developers currently disable (Application Transport > Security) ATS when deploying to iOS in order to access web resources > over insecure HTTP, rather than HTTPS > > Apple will be requiring ATS for all iOS apps submitted to the app > store from the beginning of 2017. At that point, we will remove the > option to disable it from the standalone builder. > > If you distribute an iOS app and currently depend on disabling ATS, > then you will need to take action. > > By the end of 2016, you will need to make sure that all of the servers > that your app needs to communicate with have valid SSL certificates > and can be accessed over HTTPS. The "Let's Encrypt" project may be > useful. https://letsencrypt.org/ >
I realize that LiveCode has no influence over Apple, but this is one of the most bone-headed thing Apple has ever done to it's developers. There are millions of web servers out there without any logins, serving publicly available data or information, that do not need to be encrypted and the small organizations that run them will not add SSL certs for HTTPS service. They don't have the technical expertise, or time, and will not spend the money to pay to have it done. Developers who scrape data off web sites that they have no control over will have their apps break with no effective way to ever fix them. Aside from broken Apps, Apple will, in effect, be censoring a large part of the internet from it's iOS users unless their own browser still allows HTTP (in which case they are being hypocrites). I truly hope someone sues them over such censorship on 1st amendment (freedom of speech) grounds. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
