How to solve critical chromedriver 111 issue?

[aybartsch]

Dear Serenity Devs.

With the update of chrome browser and chrome driver to version 111 a critical communication issue has been started:

Starting ChromeDriver 111.0.5563.64 (c710e93d5b63b7095afe8c2c17df34408078439d-refs/branch-heads/5563@{#995}) on port 5117
Only local connections are allowed.
Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe.
ChromeDriver was started successfully.
Mar 10, 2023 10:16:20 AM org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.WebSocket$Listener onError
WARNING: Invalid Status code=403 text=Forbidden
java.io.IOException: Invalid Status code=403 text=Forbidden

According to the thread on groups.google this issue seems to be caused by selenium itself. The workaround mentioned is to apply the chrome option "--remote-allow-origins=*".

Unfortunately, I cannot apply this switch in "serenity.conf" correctly i.e. the error is still shown. The below was not working:

chrome.switches = "--remote-allow-origins=*"

Why is the above switch not working as expected? Please, help to solve this critical issue.

Thanks and best regards, André

[abergmeister]

I got it working by adding it to serenity.conf like this:

"goog:chromeOptions" { args = ["remote-allow-origins=*", ...] }

[wakaleo]

Thanks @abergmeister. The chrome.switches option is deprecated since Serenity 3.3.0 as using the w3c options is the preferred approach.

[aybartsch]

Problem solved! Thanks to both of you.

[aybartsch]

Unfortunately, I cannot use firefox driver "-Dwebdriver.driver=firefox" when defining chrome options the above way.

Caused by: net.thucydides.core.webdriver.DriverConfigurationError: WebDriver was unable to create a new instance of type class org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
WebDriver reported the following message: Could not start a new session. Response code 500. Message: Unable to find a matching set of capabilities 
...
Build info: version: '4.8.0', revision: '267030adea'
System info: os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '12.6.3', java.version: '11.0.15'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
Command: [null, newSession {capabilities=[Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: true, browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [--remote-allow-origins=*]}, moz:debuggerAddress: true, moz:firefoxOptions: {args: [-headless, -headless], log: {level: error}}}], desiredCapabilities=Capabilities {acceptInsecureCerts: true, browserName: chrome, goog:chromeOptions: {args: [--remote-allow-origins=*]}, moz:debuggerAddress: true, moz:firefoxOptions: {args: [-headless, -headless], log: {level: error}}}}]
See below for more details.

How can I define the capabilities for chrome driver only?

[aybartsch]

Solved by myself when removing the capability "browserName=chrome".

[jerrin89]

I got it working by adding it to serenity.conf like this:

"goog:chromeOptions" { args = ["remote-allow-origins=*", ...] }

@abergmeister could you please tell me where i need to put the above??

local {
rest.logging = true
headless.mode = false
mssql.db.username = "ucase_AutoTest"
mssql.db.password = "AutoTest1"
webdriver.base.url = "http://localhost"
mssql.db.connection = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=ucase;"
webdriver {
driver = chrome
}
}

[globalworming]

see https://serenity-bdd.github.io/docs/guide/driver_config#configuring-chromedriver-arguments

webdriver {
  capabilities {
    ...
    "goog:chromeOptions" {
      args = [ "start-maximized", "headless"]
    }
  }
}

[jerrin89]

@globalworming I have added that but not working for me
local {
rest.logging = true
headless.mode = false
mssql.db.username = "ucase_AutoTest"
mssql.db.password = "AutoTest1"
webdriver.base.url = "http://localhost"
mssql.db.connection = "jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=ucase;"
webdriver {
capabilities {
...
"goog:chromeOptions" {
args = [ "start-maximized", "headless"]
}
}
}
}

[globalworming]

remove the ...

[jerrin89]

@globalworming removed the dots but still the same

Exception in thread "main" com.google.inject.ProvisionException: Unable to provision, see the following errors:

1) [Guice/ErrorInCustomProvider]: ConfigException$Parse: C:\Repos\BDD New\ucase-bdd\src\test\resources\serenity.conf: 125: unbalanced close brace '}' with no open brace (if you intended '}' to be part of a key or string value, try enclosing the key or value in double quotes)
  at ThucydidesModule.provideEnvironmentVariables(ThucydidesModule.java:71)
  at SystemPropertiesConfiguration.<init>(SystemPropertiesConfiguration.java:67)
      \_ for 1st parameter
  while locating SystemPropertiesConfiguration
  at ThucydidesModule.configure(ThucydidesModule.java:47)
  while locating Configuration

Learn more:
  https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/ERROR_IN_CUSTOM_PROVIDER

1 error

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ConfigException$Parse:         "com.typesafe.config.ConfigException$Parse"
Configuration:                 "net.thucydides.core.webdriver.Configuration"
SystemPropertiesConfiguration: "net.thucydides.core.configuration.SystemPropertiesConfiguration"
ThucydidesModule:              "net.thucydides.core.guice.ThucydidesModule"
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[globalworming]

serenity.conf: 125: unbalanced close brace '}' with no open brace

you messed up the format somewhere