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* Copyright (c) 2015, The Android Open Source Project
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*
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*
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*/
package android.security;
/**
* Network security policy.
*
* <p>Network stacks/components should honor this policy to make it possible to centrally control
* the relevant aspects of network security behavior.
*
* <p>The policy currently consists of a single flag: whether cleartext network traffic is
* permitted. See {@link #isCleartextTrafficPermitted()}.
*/
public class NetworkSecurityPolicy {
private static final NetworkSecurityPolicy INSTANCE = new NetworkSecurityPolicy();
private NetworkSecurityPolicy() {}
/**
* Gets the policy for this process.
*
* <p>It's fine to cache this reference. Any changes to the policy will be immediately visible
* through the reference.
*/
public static NetworkSecurityPolicy getInstance() {
return INSTANCE;
}
/**
* Returns whether cleartext network traffic (e.g. HTTP, FTP, WebSockets, XMPP, IMAP, SMTP --
* without TLS or STARTTLS) is permitted for this process.
*
* <p>When cleartext network traffic is not permitted, the platform's components (e.g. HTTP and
* FTP stacks, {@link android.app.DownloadManager}, {@link android.media.MediaPlayer}) will
* refuse this process's requests to use cleartext traffic. Third-party libraries are strongly
* encouraged to honor this setting as well.
*
* <p>This flag is honored on a best effort basis because it's impossible to prevent all
* cleartext traffic from Android applications given the level of access provided to them. For
* example, there's no expectation that the {@link java.net.Socket} API will honor this flag
* because it cannot determine whether its traffic is in cleartext. However, most network
* traffic from applications is handled by higher-level network stacks/components which can
* honor this aspect of the policy.
*
* <p>NOTE: {@link android.webkit.WebView} does not honor this flag.
*/
public boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted() {
return libcore.net.NetworkSecurityPolicy.isCleartextTrafficPermitted();
}
/**
* Sets whether cleartext network traffic is permitted for this process.
*
* <p>This method is used by the platform early on in the application's initialization to set
* the policy.
*
* @hide
*/
public void setCleartextTrafficPermitted(boolean permitted) {
libcore.net.NetworkSecurityPolicy.setCleartextTrafficPermitted(permitted);
}
}