Fails to load webpage with content-type "text/html;"

[swernerx]

Current behavior:

When loading a web page from our CDN (Azure) we do not have any issues in standard web browsers but when using Cypress. We receive the following error message:

Seems like it does the like the appended semicolon. I can't imagine that this additional semicolon used for adding e.g. a charset information is really that problematic.

Desired behavior:

I guess Cypress should tolerate all content-types starting with "text/html" instead of doing a strict string check here.

Test code to reproduce

Try running cypress again one of our CDN urls e.g.:

CYPRESS_BASE_URL=https://hconnectmanage-qa.azureedge.net/ yarn cypress run

The actual test is not relevant. It fails even before starting.

I modified your tiny repo to show it quickly:
https://github.com/swernerx/cypress-test-tiny/tree/content-type-issue

Versions

Cypress: v5.1
MacOS 10.15.6
Electron as bundled by Cypress

[lbesson-della]

I agree with @swernerx here.
While the header azure is sending is probably not "correct", cypress could be less strict, since it's impossible (or very complicated) to change the headers sent by azure.

[flotwig]

Technically, the header text/html; is invalid: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.1 You need to supply a parameter after the ; for it to be valid.

However, it looks like Cypress wouldn't even recognize a valid parameter like text/html;charset=utf-8, or a valid uppercase content-type like Text/HTML:

cypress/packages/server/lib/server.js

Lines 70 to 84 in dd979eb

	const isResponseHtml = function (contentType, responseBuffer) {
	let body
	if (contentType) {
	return contentType === 'text/html'
	}
	body = _.invoke(responseBuffer, 'toString')
	if (body) {
	return isHtml(body)
	}
	return false
	}

This section of code should probably be updated to case-insensitively check that the content-type starts with text/html, since that is all that we really care about here.

Cypress also tries to check for valid HTML tags as a fallback, I'm not sure why this isn't working for your application, does it present valid HTML? - Edit: I see the issue now, it doesn't consider that unless the content-type tag is missing entirely

[cypress-bot]

The code for this is done in cypress-io/cypress#9057, but has yet to be released.
We'll update this issue and reference the changelog when it's released.

[lbesson-della]

@swernerx FYI I don't know if you need a workaround for your specific case until this fix is available, but using the console or more easily via Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, you can edit the Content-Type served by azure storage.

[cypress-bot]

Released in 5.6.0.

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