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over 5 years ago

Garmin Connect Mobile 4.22 for Android includes the changes to allow HTTP on 127.0.0.1.

Connect version 4.20 broke local http access?

Getting several reports of functionality no longer working, it looks like Android Garmin connect app version 4.20 may have broken web request to local host via urls like http://127.0.0.1:17580/sgv.json?count=3

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  • over 5 years ago

    Just to add my two ha'porth.

    One of my use cases is a set of REST calls from an FR935 to a server on my home network that does not support https:// and the code of which is not in my control. 

    After the https:// requirement hardened I had to introduce a whole managed Comm layer on the watch and a complete Android companion application in order to get the requests from the watch to the server. What had been a straightforward and relatively timely makeWebRequest() became a fraught mini-protocol with a path length a couple of orders of magnitude longer and slower.  

    It is my understanding that this is really all down to Apple, long before Google and Garmin.

    Even if - and I know it is purely hypothetical and will not happen for the reasons others have noted - even if it were possible to establish a trusted certificate chain for home network topologies, why should I have to go begging to an external CA for permission to flow traffic across my own private network ???

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  • over 5 years ago

    Just to add my two ha'porth.

    One of my use cases is a set of REST calls from an FR935 to a server on my home network that does not support https:// and the code of which is not in my control. 

    After the https:// requirement hardened I had to introduce a whole managed Comm layer on the watch and a complete Android companion application in order to get the requests from the watch to the server. What had been a straightforward and relatively timely makeWebRequest() became a fraught mini-protocol with a path length a couple of orders of magnitude longer and slower.  

    It is my understanding that this is really all down to Apple, long before Google and Garmin.

    Even if - and I know it is purely hypothetical and will not happen for the reasons others have noted - even if it were possible to establish a trusted certificate chain for home network topologies, why should I have to go begging to an external CA for permission to flow traffic across my own private network ???

    </rant>

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