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Safari 12 refuses to parse dataURLs

See original GitHub issue

Bug report

Node Version: v10.11.0
Protractor Version: 5.4.1
Angular Version: 6.1.8
Browser(s): Safari 12
Operating System and Version macOS 10.13.6
Your protractor configuration file

The configuration file is the same as the one which was generated by the CLI. Only the browserName was changed and the directConnect property was removed.

  // ... as provided by @angular/cli
  capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'safari'
  },
  // remove the directConnect property
  // ...

A relevant example test

It’s enough to just run the default tests.

ng e2e

Output from running the test

should display welcome message
      - Failed: Could not parse requested URL 'data:text/html,<html></html>'

Steps to reproduce the bug

npx --package @angular/cli ng new safari-test
cd safari-test
# Change the browserName in the config to 'safari' and remove the directConnect property.
ng e2e

A workaround is to add browser.resetUrl = 'about:blank'; to the onPrepare function. But I think it would be nice if Protractor works with Safari out of the box. A fix for Safari which does at least not break tests with Chrome would be to change the DEFAULT_RESET_URL to ‘about:blank’. But I don’t know if that has implications which affect other browsers.

https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/lib/browser.ts#L22

Please let me know if you think it is a viable solution. I’m happy to provide a pull request for changing that.