No working workaround for : Native Automation requires https protocol

[wombatka]

What is your Scenario?

I cannot run my tests over http using native automation and chrome 130,
I tried using workaround from: #8133
The url seems to be loaded via http but it is not which can be seen in the browser console

What is the Current behavior?

automatic redirect to https occurs and page is not loaded

What is the Expected behavior?

page should be loaded via http

What is the public URL of the test page? (attach your complete example)

example.js:

import {Selector, t} from "testcafe";

fixture('MWE')
test('Website served only by HTTP is tried to be opened with HTTPS', async () => {
await t.navigateTo('http://www.testingmcafeesites.com/')
await t.debug()
})

What is your TestCafe test code?

example.js:

import {Selector, t} from "testcafe";

fixture('MWE')
test('Website served only by HTTP is tried to be opened with HTTPS', async () => {
await t.navigateTo('http://www.testingmcafeesites.com/')
await t.debug()
})

package.json

{
"name": "testcafeexample",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "example.js",
"scripts": {
"test": "testcafe chrome example.js"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"dependencies": {
"testcafe": "3.7.0-rc.2"

}
}

customRequestHook.js

const RequestHook = require('testcafe').RequestHook
class CustomRequestHook extends RequestHook {
constructor (requestFilterRules) {
super(requestFilterRules);
}

onRequest(e) {
    console.log("Changing protocol")
    e.requestOptions.protocol = 'http:';
}

.testcaferc.cjs

let CustomRequestHook = require('./customRequestHook.js').CustomRequestHook
const hook = new CustomRequestHook(/https?://.*/);
module.exports = {
hooks: {
request: hook
},
skipJsErrors : true
}

onResponse(e) {
}

}

module.exports = {
CustomRequestHook
}

Your complete configuration file

let CustomRequestHook = require('./customRequestHook.js').CustomRequestHook
const hook = new CustomRequestHook(/https?://.*/);
module.exports = {
hooks: {
request: hook
},
skipJsErrors : true
}

Your complete test report

No response

Screenshots

Steps to Reproduce

1.run test
2.open browser console
3.you will see that requet was sent with https not http

TestCafe version

3.7.0-rc.2

Node.js version

21.7.1

Command-line arguments

npm test

Browser name(s) and version(s)

chrome 130

Platform(s) and version(s)

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Other

No response

[wombatka]

you can see in network console that origin is set to url with https, despite custom hook i used

[github-actions]

We appreciate you taking the time to share information about this issue. We reproduced the bug and added this ticket to our internal task queue. We'll update this thread once we have news.

[wombatka]

Any updates here? We cannot update chrome because of this issue..

[aleks-pro]

Hello @wombatka ,

We are researching the issue. We will update this thread once we have news.

[Bayheck]

Hello,

I researched the issue further, and here is what I found.

For some reason, the HTTP request event fails to arrive quickly enough to execute the customHook onRequest method. To address this, I introduced a delay before changing the protocol, and everything now works as expected.

You can verify the origin of the page in the DevTools console by checking either window.location.origin or window.location.protocol.

This is the updated workaround for your case:

async onRequest(e) {    
    await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 5000)); //you can increase this value if issue persists.

    e.requestOptions.protocol = 'http:';
}

Please try this solution and let us know your results.