Whitelist "launch-external" setting does nothing

according to cordova docs, you should be able to specify in the config file which urls will open in an external browser by setting:

<access origin="http://example.com/*" launch-external="yes" />

However this does nothing.

I've looked into the definition of shouldStartLoadWithRequest, and it does indeed have a line near the bottom that would load the url in the external system browser ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url]), however it appears that it would be impossible for this line to be executed as long as the protocol is http or https.

I'm not sure what the "correct" way is to address this, however it seems that old versions of the docs should be updated to reflect that launch-external does not do anything and maybe we could start paying attention to that config attribute going forward.