android: xhr GET request aren't working if your server URL is in `allowNavigation` config

Description of the problem: Having your server URL in allowNavigation, won’t allow you to make simple GET xhr requests on android. Because capacitor will intercept them as navigation requests.

Affected platform

• Android
• iOS
• electron
• web

OS of the development machine

• Windows
• macOS
• linux

When my API URL is being added to the allowNavigation config. E.G

{
  "appId": "app.com",
  "appName": "app",
  "bundledWebRuntime": false,
  "npmClient": "npm",
  "webDir": "dist",
  "server": {
    "allowNavigation": [
        "my-server-url.com",
      ]
  },
  "android": {
    "allowMixedContent": true
  }
}

When my app is having a GET endpoint of my server. Calling it VIA regular browser or IOS returns the proper headers and response. But on android webView, capticator intercepts the request. note the served from disk cache and Content-Type:text/html , Client-Via:shouldInterceptRequest headers. In browsers or IOS the response returns the correct content-type which is application/json;

Capacitor version: 1.0.0 node version: v8.11.3 npm version: 6.9.0 CocoaPods version:

Steps to reproduce:

• Have any API with a GET request.
• Add the API url to allowNavigation config.
• run and build andorid project with an XHR request to the server.

I wonder if capacitor could differentiate between XHR requests and navigation requests to address this issue.

[jcesarmobile]

thanks for the sample project, but it was already fixed in https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/pull/2146

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