Disabling web security for testing purposes on android

[Ayush Goel]

I am using the following flags to disable CORS ( cross origin policy) : --disable-web-security --disable-features=IsolateOrigins,site-per-process --disable-site-isolation-trials

It seems to work perfectly fine on the desktop (linux) version of chrome, but when I provide the same flags to android version of chrome ( flags are passed through /data/local/chrome-command-line) on a rooted phone, it doesn't work. 

I can confirm that the flags are correctly passed by inspecting chrome://version. However, despite that, chrome on android throws the cross origin errors. 

Any help would be sincerely appreciated ,I have been struggling with this for quite some while.

[Torne (Richard Coles)]

This may not be the problem since you say it shows up in chrome://version, but if your device is rooted via an unofficial method (i.e. hacking it) instead of by installing a debug build of Android, then you need to enable chrome://flags#enable-command-line-on-non-rooted-devices to make it actually obey the command line file. By default the file is only read on userdebug/eng build of android.

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[Ayush Goel]

Yes the file is being correctly read, as I mentioned, the flags are being displayed at chrome://version. The problem is despite being read correctly, it is not working the way it is supposed to, ie unable to access cross origin data. 

Also, I did try what you suggested, with same outcome.