We have an app that uses Cordova and the Cordova Local Webserver Plugin. Opening the start page index.html is accomplished using a localhost call to the plugin (something like http://localhost:xxxxx/index.html where xxxxx is the port number randomly chosen by the plugin). Sometimes our app runs on a device with Content Restrictions enabled and a limited set of URLs added to the Allowed Websites list, including http://localhost.
Starting with iPadOS 16.5, our call is to http://localhost started being restricted even though it is included in the Allowed Website list. Has anyone else encountered this scenario?
Several combinations of http://localhost, with : or / or wildcard * added, were added to the Allowed Website list with no success. If http://localhost:xxxxx/index.html was added, it would work and allow access to the local webserver only if xxxxx was a hard coded port number. So we are looking into that as a solution, but wonder if there may be some other solution or possible plugin updates.
