cypress reloads in infinite loop when calling cy.visit to http URL that upgrades to https.

[Jsijbel]

Current behavior

When visiting a page that triggers certain redirects, the test runner keeps reloading and looping endlessly.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/39823861/220307457-9c30ff6e-a37d-4abf-b370-2431082d3aae.mp4

Desired behavior

Not reload the test runner and follow redirects.

Test code to reproduce

describe('example cypress reload issue', () => {
  it('keeps reloading', () => {
    cy.visit('https://enexis.nl/mijn-enexis/mijn-aanvragen')
  })
})

Cypress Version

12.6

Node version

18.12.1

Operating System

Win 11

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[flotwig]

Thanks for opening an issue @Jsijbel. Confirmed that I can reproduce this behavior. Is there a specific version this started occurring on for you?

It seems like there is a 301 and two 302's before landing back on inloggen, possibly this redirect chain is causing Cypress to become confused:

I'll get this routed and prioritized for a fix.

[Jsijbel]

Thank your for your response and acknowledgement. I honestly can't remember when this issue wasn't present, and we have been working with cypress in our teams for several years now. Normally this isn't a real issue for us as we collect the authentication programmatically in most cases, however for a new test case this is causing issues for us.

[krpatter-intc]

Was curious if there was a workaround ever found for this issue? I think I am perhaps hitting a similar issues (v12.9.0)

[wikstfre]

I am also curious about some workaround. Also having this issue (12.11.0) with an Angular app (redirects when authenticating).

[joaconigro]

Hi, I'm having the same issue. Is there any news about this problem? or any workaround? Thank you

[StefanSakovic]

I have the same problem..any news about this bug?

[BevanR]

We observed this unexpected looping behaviour when Cypress was running on https:// in the Chrome browser that it was driving. The server for our system under test (SPA web app) only supports the http:// protocol. When we manually removed the s in the URL bar in the Cypress-driven Chrome, it began behaving as expected again (no looping).

[StefanSakovic]

We observed this unexpected looping behaviour when Cypress was running on https:// in the Chrome browser that it was driving. The server for our system under test (SPA web app) only supports the http:// protocol. When we manually removed the s in the URL bar in the Cypress-driven Chrome, it began behaving as expected again (no looping).

As first, Thanks a lot for solving our problem.. But need to ask..is it correct to leave tests like that...I mean is it good to work only on http protocol instead of both? Thanks

[corydeppen]

Between our tests running fine on Firefox and the comment above by @BevanR (thank you!), I'm wondering if this may be related to Chrome's recent change to use HTTPS by default.

[nathan5x]

@flotwig - Our team is also facing the same issue. URL starts with https. This problem is happening only on Chrome. Firefox works perfectly fine.

[SimonFryPH]

Also having this issue - Chrome only

[StefanSakovic]

Also having this issue - Chrome only

Cypress suport only http protocol. Use http protocol instead of https..like this example:

*EROR

httpS://www.someexampe.com(when u test website with https its strating realoding)

acceptable :

http://www.someexampe.com (when u test website with http its NOT reloading)

[burkedavid]

exactly same issue here on Cypress [13.5.0]

[mpoetzsch]

To summarize, the issue arises only with newer versions of Chrome (it worked for me with an older version). The problem likely started with the introduction of https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/towards-https-by-default.html.

Workaround: change the URL from https to http in the address bar of chrome and reload the web specs runner. After that, the tests run smoothly.

or a more permanent workaround is here: https://superuser.com/questions/565409/how-to-stop-an-automatic-redirect-from-http-to-https-in-chrome/881431 (the solution with the most upvotes)

[jennifer-shehane]

We would recommend having your cy.visit visit the correct protocol (http/https) to avoid the redirection loop for now to get around this issue. We're looking into if anything can be done with the Chrome's new logic.

[alexsch01]

I am only seeing this with cypress open, I don't see this with cypress run

Does anyone see the same?

[alexsch01]

I am only seeing this with cypress open, I don't see this with cypress run

Nevermind.....I am now seeing this issue with cypress run

[JohnnyTheBoy]

does any of you have a solution for headless mode.... since I upgraded chrome to v120 I can't find a solution for making chrome use http instead of https and yes it falls in loop in headless mode. I tried all above mentioned possible solutions but no success yet.

[joaconigro]

@JohnnyTheBoy in my case I solved it by using this configuration

export default defineConfig({
  video: false,
  e2e: {
    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:4273',
    specPattern: '**/*.feature',
    chromeWebSecurity: true, //using true prevents the page reload loop
    defaultCommandTimeout: 10000, //Extended the default timeout, might be slower in docker
    experimentalModifyObstructiveThirdPartyCode: true,
    setupNodeEvents
  }
});

the chromeWebSecurity: true fixed the loop issue

[pjg]

Well, the problem with setting chromeWebSecurity to false is that I can no longer manipulate iframes (as described in this post: https://www.cypress.io/blog/2020/02/12/working-with-iframes-in-cypress), so unfortunately that is not an option for me.

[JohnnyTheBoy]

@joaconigro It's not working for me.... Can you confirm that you have chrome v120

[joaconigro]

@joaconigro It's not working for me.... Can you confirm that you have chrome v120

Actually, I'm not using Chrome, but Microsoft Edge v120. I thought it should work as well :(

[alexsch01]

I updated the workaround here: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/25891#issuecomment-1861098656

[JohnnyTheBoy]

@alexsch01 Nope..... still not working with Cypress v 13.6.1 and Chrome v120 .... you can test that by adding code to the scaffolded cypress tests.

[jennifer-shehane]

Hi, I'd like to get some understanding on why this workaround doesn't work for people. To visit the correct URL to begin with. Is there a reason you need to visit the http or https and have it resolve to the other protocol?

We would recommend having your cy.visit visit the correct protocol (http/https) to avoid the redirection loop for now to get around this issue.

[alexsch01]

Hi, I'd like to get some understanding on why this workaround doesn't work for people. To visit the correct URL to begin with. Is there a reason you need to visit the http or https and have it resolve to the other protocol?

We would recommend having your cy.visit visit the correct protocol (http/https) to avoid the redirection loop for now to get around this issue.

Internal (not exposed to the Internet) company apps generally use http

• I am using the correct protocol (http) for the URL I'm visit'ing

[jennifer-shehane]

Yah I can recreate this infinite loop with this example which has no https protocol.

it('loops forever', () => {
  cy.visit('http://http.badssl.com/')
})

[alexsch01]

Lets say test1 and test2.com are both in the host file and they go to the same IP Address and there is no https version

cy.visit('http://test') - won't have the looping issue cy.visit('http://test2.com') - will have the looping issue

for the httpforever.com example

cy.visit('http://146.190.62.39') - won't have the looping issue cy.visit('http://httpforever.com') - will have the looping issue

[alexsch01]

@jennifer-shehane In DevTools running in Cypress Chrome window, location.href = location.href.replace(location.origin, 'http://httpforever.com') It automatically upgrades it to https

[VolodymyrDmytriukhin]

I have also issue with opening http protocol - tried chromeWebSecurity: true - but strange that in 1 application it worked, but in another doesn't. Issue occurred after updating to chrome 120 Not reproducible on Firefox 120