Protractor: Safari 12 refuses to parse dataURLs

Created on 23 Sep 2018  路  12Comments  路  Source: angular/protractor

Bug report

  • Node Version: v10.11.0
  • Protractor Version: 5.4.1
  • Angular Version: 6.1.8
  • Browser(s): Safari 12
  • Operating System and Version macOS 10.13.6
  • Your protractor configuration file

The configuration file is the same as the one which was generated by the CLI. Only the browserName was changed and the directConnect property was removed.

  // ... as provided by @angular/cli
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'safari'
  },
  // remove the directConnect property
  // ...
  • A relevant example test

It's enough to just run the default tests.

ng e2e
  • Output from running the test
should display welcome message
      - Failed: Could not parse requested URL 'data:text/html,<html></html>'
  • Steps to reproduce the bug
npx --package @angular/cli ng new safari-test
cd safari-test
# Change the browserName in the config to 'safari' and remove the directConnect property.
ng e2e

A workaround is to add browser.resetUrl = 'about:blank'; to the onPrepare function. But I think it would be nice if Protractor works with Safari out of the box. A fix for Safari which does at least not break tests with Chrome would be to change the DEFAULT_RESET_URL to 'about:blank'. But I don't know if that has implications which affect other browsers.

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/browser.ts#L22

Please let me know if you think it is a viable solution. I'm happy to provide a pull request for changing that.

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Hi @evilaliv3, no I don't use CSP when running the tests.

As mentioned in the bug report above a workaround is to add browser.resetUrl = 'about:blank'; to the onPrepare function as done for example here.

picture chrisguttandin on 7 Sep 2019
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All 12 comments

Any news on this issue?

sbrez picture sbrez on 19 Nov 2018

Same here. Anything new?

EberhardSchneider picture EberhardSchneider on 21 Dec 2018

Any update or fix for this issue ??

nayanr9 picture nayanr9 on 1 Feb 2019

Bug report

  • Node Version: v10.11.0
  • Protractor Version: 5.4.1
  • Angular Version: 6.1.8
  • Browser(s): Safari 12
  • Operating System and Version macOS 10.13.6
  • Your protractor configuration file

The configuration file is the same as the one which was generated by the CLI. Only the browserName was changed and the directConnect property was removed.

  // ... as provided by @angular/cli
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'safari'
  },
  // remove the directConnect property
  // ...
  • A relevant example test

It's enough to just run the default tests.

ng e2e
  • Output from running the test
should display welcome message
      - Failed: Could not parse requested URL 'data:text/html,<html></html>'
  • Steps to reproduce the bug
npx --package @angular/cli ng new safari-test
cd safari-test
# Change the browserName in the config to 'safari' and remove the directConnect property.
ng e2e

A workaround is to add browser.resetUrl = 'about:blank'; to the onPrepare function. But I think it would be nice if Protractor works with Safari out of the box. A fix for Safari which does at least not break tests with Chrome would be to change the DEFAULT_RESET_URL to 'about:blank'. But I don't know if that has implications which affect other browsers.

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/browser.ts#L22

Please let me know if you think it is a viable solution. I'm happy to provide a pull request for changing that.

Do you have any update for this? My suite is not running on Safari
Build info: version: '3.14.0', revision: 'aacccce0', time: '2018-08-02T20:13:22.693Z'
System info: host: 'INC02Q40GKG8WP', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:c94:4b60:1b53:e9fb%en0', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.14', java.version: '1.8.0_172'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

Tried the example given in https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/docs/browser-setup.md website, that as well is giving the same error. I think it has something to do with the driver.

nayanr9 picture nayanr9 on 1 Feb 2019

Facing same issue, Any fix for this issue?

prasadqc picture prasadqc on 18 Jun 2019

Any fix for this issue? What is the alternative anyone is trying right now?

Nagadinesh picture Nagadinesh on 24 Jun 2019

We are now encountering the same issue in the @GlobaLeaks project: https://api.travis-ci.org/v3/job/582019060/log.txt

@chrisguttandin have you found any solution?

@juliemr @cnishina do you have any advice?

evilaliv3 picture evilaliv3 on 7 Sep 2019

@chrisguttandin: is it possible that the app you were testing was implementing Content Security Policy headers preventing data URIs?

evilaliv3 picture evilaliv3 on 7 Sep 2019

Actually this comment by @juliemr seems relevant: https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/1223#issuecomment-53091420

evilaliv3 picture evilaliv3 on 7 Sep 2019

https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/4964#issuecomment-529104052
Yes we have csp enabled in our app.

nayanr9 picture nayanr9 on 7 Sep 2019

Hi @evilaliv3, no I don't use CSP when running the tests.

As mentioned in the bug report above a workaround is to add browser.resetUrl = 'about:blank'; to the onPrepare function as done for example here.

chrisguttandin picture chrisguttandin on 7 Sep 2019
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super, thank you!

evilaliv3 picture evilaliv3 on 7 Sep 2019
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