Webdriver with Safari iOS Simulator

[mantoni]

WebDriver with local Safari

I experimented using safaridriver directly (which comes with Safari since v13). It worked right out of the box:

safaridriver --port 4444

And then configure webdriver capabilities accordingly (see documentation change).

WebDriver with local iOS Simulator

This got me excited, so I tried running tests in iOS Simulator with this approach, which I coulnd't get to work at first. The executeScript calls always failed with a security exception, regardless of whether I served the local HTML file or used --serve ..

The solution was to turn off https and use a http server instead. Works like a dream. I have no idea why exactly this is, but francly, I also don't remember why an https was important at the time. Whatever I tried running through this setup worked.

@m90 Do you recall why we used an https server in Mochify so far?

[m90]

Do you recall why we used an https server in Mochify so far?

I have no idea tbh, from looking at the git history it seems to have been introduced like this and never was changed. My initial guess would have been that it allows a "secure context" (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Secure_Contexts) which unlocks certain DOM APIs (window.crypto.subtle for example), but it seems all localhost domains are also considered secure even when served through http. The only situation this might be breaking would probably be:

• code uses APIs that rely on a secure context
• localhost is aliased to a non-localhost domain

but tbh this sounds very far fetched, so I guess it's ok to just use http.

N.B.: Chrome seems to push "https first" https://blog.chromium.org/2021/03/a-safer-default-for-navigation-https.html with version 94, but from what I understand this shouldn't affect us here.