Protractor: browser.driver.get('/') does not prepend baseUrl before executing command

[lavinjj]

If you have a baseUrl set up in the configuration such as baseUrl = 'http://localhost:9090'; and you try to navigate to a page that does not have AngularJS running on it with browser.driver.get('/'); Selenium throws the following exception:

UnknownError: unknown error: unhandled inspector error: {"code":-32603,"message":"Cannot navigate to invalid URL"}

However, if you navigate to the same page with browser.driver.get(browser.baseUrl + '/'); WebdriverJS is able to navigate tot he page properly without issue.

Shouldn't the baseUrl configuration option work in both cases?

[juliemr]

Url resolution directly uses node's url.resolve, which works in kind of funny ways. See the docs: http://nodejs.org/api/url.html

[demisx]

Sorry, I still don't get it after reading multiple online posts. Is baseUrl in the config file supposed to work for e2e tests or not? I currently have this in the config:

 baseUrl: 'http://dev.hotili.net:8000'

but browser.baseUrl still resolves to original http://127.0.0.1:8000.

Thanks.

[juliemr]

baseUrl in the config should work. Are you sure everything is up to date or you're not setting browser.baseUrl elsewhere?

[demisx]

You are absolutely right! I was passing a --baseURL parameter in the gulp task that was overriding what I had set in the config file. I removed it and everything worked as expected.

Thank you for your support and the awesome product.