[BUG] Relative URLs not working in page.goto() in manually launched chromium instances within playwright-test tests.

Context:

• Playwright Version: “@playwright/test”: “^1.17.2”
• Operating System: MacOS developer setup, Linux on Github actions
• Node.js version: 16
• Browser: Chromium

Describe the bug

When updating from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2 it seems that in the chromium instances launched using chromium.launch(), relative URLs given to page.goto do not work anymore. Just to make it extra clear: They do work in the page object that is handed to our test code by playwright-test, but do not work in the browser instances that are instantiated “manually” using chromium.launch()

We specify the root URL in playwright.config.ts like this.

const config: PlaywrightTestConfig = {
  testDir: "test/e2e",
  use: {
    headless: true,
    baseURL: "http://localhost:8080",
  }
}
export default config

I’m sorry I’m not at the moment able to spare the time to create a standalone snippet/repo for repeating the issue.

One more thing: PlayWright really rocks! Superb work in all aspects in general.

[raimohanska]

Thanks for the tips!

[raimohanska]

I’ll see if we can find time for trying to come up with a repro. Thanks anyway!