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machawk1 / warcreate

Chrome extension to "Create WARC files from any webpage"
https://warcreate.com
MIT License
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Irrelevant Web Worker requests included #119

Closed nattaylor closed 4 years ago

nattaylor commented 4 years ago

This "bug" seems to be a consequence of my browser environment, but I am observing a strange interaction with what I think are background Web Workers. To recreate:

1) Open some web applications that use background web workers (Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, open.spotify.com) 2) Open a simple page (https://nattaylor.com) 3) Create a WARC with the extension

At least in my case, the WARC contains a whole bunch of irrelevant requests that appear to be related to background web workers from the other tabs. Take a look at 20191229150843960.warc.txt

Curiously, this is even true if I create the WARC in an incognito tab and have the other tabs in a normal tab.

Chrome: Version 79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit) MacOS: 10.15 (19A603)

machawk1 commented 4 years ago

@nattaylor I am aware of this behavior and hope to fix it in #7. I am short on cycles at the moment but PRs welcome. I have put priority to #7, as it is a major issue. Thanks for the report.