webdriverio: browser.url(url) not working remotely (browserstack)

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Environment (please complete the following information):

WebdriverIO version: 7.0.5
Mode: Standalone mode
Node.js version: 12.18.4
Yarn version: 1.22.10
Browser name and version: Chrome 88
Platform name and version: Mac 10.15.7 (Catalina)

Describe the bug When using browser.url(url); I am getting this error message when running remotely via Browserstack

   "TypeError [ERR_INVALID_URL]: Invalid URL:
     at onParseError (internal/url.js:256:9)
     at new URL (internal/url.js:332:5)
     at new URL (internal/url.js:329:22)
    at Browser.url (/xxxxx/node_modules/webdriverio/build/commands/browser/url.js:43:17)"

locally its working as expected.

To Reproduce

// navigate to a new URL (local and browserstack)
browser.url('https://webdriver.io');
// receive url
console.log(browser.getUrl()); // outputs: "https://webdriver.io"

Expected behavior The given url should be received both locally and remotely.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 15 (15 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

@larryg01 the problem was that the base url was an empty string. I created a PR with a fix that ensures that empty strings are ignored.

christian-bromann on Mar 12, 2021

@larryg01 I looked into the issue again and the implementation seems fine to me. I have no idea why it is working locally but failing on BS. The WebDriver commands send to the driver are the same. I am happy to re-open the issue if you can provide a minimal reproducible example. Thanks for your effort looking into this.

christian-bromann on Mar 12, 2021