/** * 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. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package android.security; /** * Network security policy. * *

Network stacks/components should honor this policy to make it possible to centrally control * the relevant aspects of network security behavior. * *

The policy currently consists of a single flag: whether cleartext network traffic is * permitted. See {@link #isCleartextTrafficPermitted()}. * * @hide */ public class NetworkSecurityPolicy { private static final NetworkSecurityPolicy INSTANCE = new NetworkSecurityPolicy(); private NetworkSecurityPolicy() {} /** * Gets the policy for this process. * *

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. * *

When cleartext network traffic is not permitted, the platform's components (e.g. HTTP and * FTP stacks, {@code WebView}, {@code MediaPlayer}) will refuse this process's requests to use * cleartext traffic. Third-party libraries are strongly encouraged to honor this setting as * well. * *

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. */ public boolean isCleartextTrafficPermitted() { return libcore.net.NetworkSecurityPolicy.isCleartextTrafficPermitted(); } /** * Sets whether cleartext network traffic is permitted for this process. * *

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); } }