Issue with specifying host in K6 browser experimental feature, leading to virtual user limitation

[dylandifilippo]

Brief summary

At work, I'm using the K6 browser experimental feature for testing a website we're going to lunch next week and I cannot specify a host to prevent being flagged as a DDoS attack by the Akamai layer in place, limiting me to 10 virtual users before it breaks.

Using the standard K6 library for average load testing, specifying the host works fine. However, with the K6 browser feature on my Mac, despite setting the host in the K6 script options and using sudo nano /etc/hosts in the terminal, the issue remains.

k6 version

0.50

OS

macOS 14.4.1

Docker version and image (if applicable)

No response

Steps to reproduce the problem

Try to specify an host in the code.

Expected behaviour

Being able to add an host.

Actual behaviour

Not being able to add an host and assuming I'm doing a DDoS attack.

[oleiade]

Hi @dylandifilippo 👋🏻

Thanks for reaching out. Could you be more specific as to how the problem you experience manifests itself and provide us a test script we could use to reproduce the issue and assert whether it's related to a bug already? 🙇🏻

cc @ankur22 @inancgumus

[inancgumus]

Hi @dylandifilippo, Thanks for letting us know. We usually prefer it if you first create a new post in our k6 browser community forum so that we can identify exactly what new feature we might need to help with your issue. Closing this issue for now (we can always reopen it later if necessary).