[Question] - Routing

Hi!

I have a question about page.route() , I am not sure if I am using it properly.

I have the following code in a fixture:

await page.route('**/*', route => {
    if (route.request().url().includes('blocker') || route.request().url().includes('testing')) {
        route.abort()
    }
    else {
        route.continue();
    }
})
await page.goto(url)

Then on my test:

//Some stuff
await page.waitForUrl("something")

If I am not wrong, I have noticed that “routing” gets executed again when page.waitForUrl() is called, could it be the case?. Is this a correct usage ? I only want to block some request on the initial navigation (page.goto()), should I use “unroute()” after that to prevent this ?

Thanks a lot!

[dgozman]

@imartinflores Once setup, route affects all requests matching the pattern, so it is usually called multiple times. Unrouting is a good solution here. You can also narrow down the pattern to only route some requests, not all of them.

const abortPattern = /blocker|testing/;
await page.route(abortPattern, route => route.abort());
await page.goto(url);
await page.unroute(abortPattern);

[dgozman]

Closing as per above.