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    Ajax Callbacks Work on Working Preview, but not on Actual Mobile App

    Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well!

    I seem to have hit a wall with an Ajax Callback issue on mobile devices, and I'd really appreciate some advice!

    A little background: I work for a small company related to staffing and temporary employment. My background is not in computers, unfortunately. After working for the company for a few years, I recognized that an app allowing workers to clock in and out from their phones would make life easier for everyone involved. Our database guy had built our database in Alpha Anywhere and recommended that I use it for the App. However, he explained that he did not have much experience working with mobile app development. Within the space of a couple months, I created a demo app that did everything we wanted (including wowing people at a trade show) except for communicate with our database. Our database guy then took the demo app and worked on connecting it to the database via an SQL server. Recently, he sent it to me to run through PhoneGap Build and work the bugs out. When I run it on the Working Preview, everything works just fine. When I install it on my Android phone and play with it, though, it does not communicate with the SQL server. After playing with it a bit, I have determined that the Ajax callbacks are failing--but only on my phone. I assume the issue has something to do with either plugins or the Ajax URL setting in the PhoneGap Build menu. I am not very knowledgeable about plugins, unfortunately. The Ajax URL setting appears to only be needed if you are calling the Alpha Anywhere servers, but I am not sure about that.

    Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? Thank you so much for your time!

    Sincerely,
    Alex


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    could be a lot of things causing the fail, like is the db on your local machine?
    NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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      #3
      Hi,
      Try building the apk based on the "phonegap shell" then you can check the call back and also add the component and see if it is working.

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        #4
        When I had the same problem it was because of the: URL For Ajax Callbacks in the PhoneGap Build Project settings. It seems it requires a / at the end for example https://yourdomain.com/yourappname/

        You may also want to look at your settings for same site as the documentation in the latest release shows (below), I had to set it to none after one I my PhoneGap applications similarly was not able to make Ajax callbacks and this fixed it:

        Cookies - The Google Chrome browser has introduced a new policy for handling cookies to make them "secure-by-default". See https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/de...y-for-new.html.
        This change has been pushed out on a limited basis, but will become generally available with Chrome version 80 in February 2020. Other browsers are pledged to follow suit. This change is intended to increase security and privacy.

        A cookie's SameSite policy will be enforced to prevent cross site access to those cookies. Some 3rd party site integrations may not behave as expected once this change is in place. For example, a 3rd party payment handler/processor may rely on the previous behavior for cookies (which made the cookies available). When using version 80 or later of Chrome, the cookies will not be available to the 3rd party site.

        If a web application has a 3rd party site integration that is not working as expected, use the Chrome developer tools to view the browser's console. A message like this will likely be there:

        A cookie associated with a cross-site resource at <3rd part site> was set without the 'SameSite' attribute. It has been blocked, as Chrome now only delivers cookies with cross-site requests if they are set with 'SameSite=None' and 'Secure'. You can review cookies in developer tools under Application>Storage>Cookies and see more details at https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5088147346030592 and https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5633521622188032.

        Alpha Anywhere has been enhanced to default its cookies to use the most secure SameSite policy of "Strict". No changes need to be made to an application for this setting to be used. Only build 6382 or later of Alpha Anywhere Application Server or the Application Server for IIS need to be installed.

        If an application needs to have access to Alpha Anywhere system cookies such as the session cookie or authentication cookie in a cross-site way, the cookie SameSite policy may need to be set to "Lax" or "None". "None" will result in the same behavior as before the SameSite policy existed.

        The SameSite policy can be changed in one of two ways.
        For Alpha Anywhere Application Server, the cookie SameSite policy can be set in the server settings dialog on the advanced tab in the Sessions section.



        For Alpha Anywhere Application Server for IIS, the cookie SameSite policy can be set in the Web Project Properties dialog.


        David Weinstein
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        [email protected]t

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          Thanks for the detailed information on this since I think I have been running into this issue. However, when I set the Same Site value to "None" my Phone Gap apps starts working but the login for my web app start failing (it goes straight the logout screen). So my basic question is can one web application server now support both a phone gap application and a web application at the same time (same URL) since they appear to require different same site settings?

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            Hi, I wondered if you ever figured out the answer to your question in the last post: "So my basic question is can one web application server now support both a phone gap application and a web application at the same time (same URL) since they appear to require different same site settings?". I have the same issue.

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              It can support both. We run numerous applications from one server that have both a web based front end and a mobile version, both with the same endpoint url.

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