Support ability to visit non `text/html` content-type pages (aka - visit downloaded file page)

Current behavior:

I am trying to test a download action from a .ts file using the attribute window.location.href. It doesn’t matter what value I assign for the URL string, the test instruction fails claiming a timeout waiting for the request when the file actually has been downloaded in few seconds. For some unknown reason Cypress never can reach the URL.

Note: I am using a Genesis UI theme as my development code base.

These are the paths that I have tried aiming to get an Ok result from the Cypress test:

1. window.location.href = '/api/download/file_id';
2. window.location.href = '/#/api/download/file_id';
3. window.location.href = 'http://localhost:5000/api/download/file_id';
4. window.location.href = 'http://localhost:5000/#/api/download/file_id';

All of them fail. But if I try the first option as a normal user from the browser directly, the download works perfectly.

Note: During the Cypress test, I can see how the file is actually downloaded. The download action occurs.

Desired behavior:

All that I am expecting is to be able to test my download action from the Cypress test.

If I trigger the download button using something like:

cy.get('[data-cy=download-file]').click();

I expect to get a positive response from the test if the file was actually downloaded.

How to reproduce:

Note: It would be great if you can try this steps using a Genesis UI theme as the base application.

1. Create a form template with a button pointing to the .ts method on the (click) parameter: (click)="downloadFile()" Note: Include a data-cy parameter as part of the button in the form: data-cy="download-file"
2. Inside the .ts method use the instruction, ensuring to use a valid path: window.location.href = '/path/to/file/for/download';
3. Write a Cypress test when you try to trigger the download button from the form. Something like: cy.get('[data-cy=download-file]').click();
4. You should get a timeout message similar to the one included as attached image.

Test code:

cy.get('[data-cy=download-file]').click(); 

Additional Info (images, stack traces, etc)

• Operating System: Mac OSX 10.13.2
• Cypress Version: 2.1.0
• Browser Version: Google Chrome 65.0.3325.181

[sanagaraj-pivotal]

This is resolved when you disabling chrome web security. This can be done by adding following line into cypress.json

  "chromeWebSecurity": false

[ioana-gln]

Any news on this?