使用自签名证书调用HTTPS服务器的PhoneGap Ajax失败

I am relatively new to phonegap and I have recently set up HTTPS/SSL on my windows apache server with a self signed certificate and am trying to make an HTTPS ajax post request. The request works fine when ran in a browser but fails when run within phonegap. I tried setting android:debuggable to false but that did not fix the issue. I have also done some research and it appears that phonegap does support HTTPS ajax requests so I am confused as to why the request is failing. I am relatively new to phonegap and I have rece