Basic auth in baseUrl does not work in electron browser

Current behavior:

If I have a baseUrl in cypress.json:

{
  "baseUrl": "http://username:[e-mail]"
}

then a basic cypress run does not work. I get this error:

Timed out waiting for the browser to connect. Retrying...

This also happens if I run --headed.

It does work in latest Chrome (66).

Desired behavior:

It should open the page with basic auth data.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Add baseUrl to cypress.json:

{
  "baseUrl": "http://username:[e-mail]"
}

1. Do cypress run

Versions

Cypress 2.1.0

[rgrigel]

We ran into this issue in our project when updating Cypress from 1.4.2 to 2.1.0. There is a workaround based on (https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/1115). We extended Cypress’s visit command with:

Cypress.Commands.overwrite('visit', (orig, url, options) => {
  options = options || {};
  options.auth = {
    username: Cypress.env('AUTH_USER'),
    password: Cypress.env('AUTH_PASS')
  };
  return orig(url, options)
});

and we are running it with:

CYPRESS_AUTH_USER=user CYPRESS_AUTH_PASS=pass CYPRESS_baseUrl=https://app.com cypress run

[Narretz]

Important note: It works with the auth parameter in “cy.visit”.