如何在rspec / capybara中停止App Transport Security错误

Question

I am using rails 4.2.5.1 with rspec and capybara. One of my tests gives the following message

2016-01-28 08:56:07.805 webkit_server[31376:18902667] App Transport Security has blocked a cleartext HTTP (http://) resource load since it is insecure. Temporary exceptions can be configured via your app's Info.plist file.

I have isolated the cause to the following lines of code in my view

<audio id="bellAudio">
    <source src="/assets/ion-sounds/bell_ring.mp3" type="audio/mp3" autobuffer="autobuffer" />
    <source src="/assets/ion-sounds/bell_ring.ogg" type="audio/ogg" autobuffer="autobuffer"/>
</audio>

which are activated by the following coffee script:

play_bell = ->
    $("#bellAudio")[0].load();
    $("#bellAudio")[0].play();

It seems very strange to get this message for what appears to be access to a local server. How do I prevent this message? If the answer is to use add something to an Info.plist, where do I put that file?

Answer 1

I swapped out the mp3 for one I generated and still got the deprecation message, so it is not a real security issue with the mp3.

I changed out the webkit driver for poltergeist and the test works and I do not get the warning message any more. So I think it is just a problem with webkit . This post makes strong arguments to move to poltergeist. So that is the way I solved it, ie I am now using poltergeist as my web driver for Capybara.