fix(headless): preserve external Chrome tabs with cwu - #1848
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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A page that fails to come to the foreground can be reused and stall subsequent work. Discard it on foregrounding failure before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change protects existing user tabs, but admitted noopener popups created by crawled content can remain in the external browser after cleanup and crawler shutdown. This exposure depends on the external browser allowing popups. No new browser or host privileges are demonstrated. Retained concerns
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Thanks @raltheo, the bug is real: with -cwu dev closes the user's own tabs, and this keeps them.
But skipping cleanup entirely in -cwu mode introduces a hang: any popup the crawl opens (e.g. window.open from a clicked button) stays in front, katana's tab ends up backgrounded, and it waits forever in WaitRepaint (dispatchCrawlAction -> ScrollIntoView). -ct doesn't stop it, and the popup plus katana's tab are left in the user's Chrome. Reproduced 4/4 on this branch, 0/4 on dev.
Suggestion: in -cwu mode, close only the tabs katana's page opened instead of skipping cleanup, i.e. proto.TargetGetTargets and close targets with Type == "page" && OpenerID == browser.TargetID. With that, the popup site crawls fully and only the user's tab survives. Worth checking noopener popups too.
Could you also add a test for this?
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Review comments at @pkg/engine/headless/browser/browser.go:
- Around line 667-680: Update the PageBringToFront call in the browser cleanup
path to check its error; if foregrounding fails, discard the browser page with
discardBrowserPage and return instead of adding it to browserPool. Preserve the
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| targets, err := proto.TargetGetTargets{}.Call(browser.Browser) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| l.discardBrowserPage(browser) | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
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| currentPageID := browser.TargetID | ||
| for _, page := range pages { | ||
| if page.TargetID != currentPageID { | ||
| _ = page.Close() | ||
| } | ||
| for _, id := range strayPageIDs(targets.TargetInfos, browser.TargetID, l.opts.ChromeWSUrl != "") { | ||
| _, _ = proto.TargetCloseTarget{TargetID: id}.Call(browser.Browser) | ||
| } | ||
| // A backgrounded page never repaints, which stalls rod's repaint waits. | ||
| // With an external browser the user's tabs or a noopener popup can still | ||
| // be in front after cleanup. | ||
| _ = proto.PageBringToFront{}.Call(browser.Page) | ||
| l.browserPool.Put(browser) |
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find "$(go env GOPATH 2>/dev/null)/pkg/mod/github.com/go-rod" -maxdepth 4 -type f \\( -name '*.go' \\) 2>/dev/null | rg '/(rod@|rod/).*(page|proto)' | head -60Repository: projectdiscovery/katana
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rg -n -i -C 4 'repaint|wait.*paint|wait.*stable' pkg/engine/headless --glob '*.go' || test "$?" -eq 1
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printf 'module path: %s\n' "$modroot"
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printf '%s\n' '--- rod repaint wait loop ---'
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Discard the page when foregrounding fails.
When PageBringToFront returns an error and the page remains backgrounded, this path still returns it to the pool. A later rod.Page.WaitRepaint can block waiting for requestAnimationFrame; discard the page on this error instead.
Suggested fix
- _ = proto.PageBringToFront{}.Call(browser.Page)
+ if err := proto.PageBringToFront{}.Call(browser.Page); err != nil {
+ l.discardBrowserPage(browser)
+ return
+ }
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| targets, err := proto.TargetGetTargets{}.Call(browser.Browser) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| l.discardBrowserPage(browser) | |
| return | |
| } | |
| currentPageID := browser.TargetID | |
| for _, page := range pages { | |
| if page.TargetID != currentPageID { | |
| _ = page.Close() | |
| } | |
| for _, id := range strayPageIDs(targets.TargetInfos, browser.TargetID, l.opts.ChromeWSUrl != "") { | |
| _, _ = proto.TargetCloseTarget{TargetID: id}.Call(browser.Browser) | |
| } | |
| // A backgrounded page never repaints, which stalls rod's repaint waits. | |
| // With an external browser the user's tabs or a noopener popup can still | |
| // be in front after cleanup. | |
| _ = proto.PageBringToFront{}.Call(browser.Page) | |
| l.browserPool.Put(browser) | |
| targets, err := proto.TargetGetTargets{}.Call(browser.Browser) | |
| if err != nil { | |
| l.discardBrowserPage(browser) | |
| return | |
| } | |
| for _, id := range strayPageIDs(targets.TargetInfos, browser.TargetID, l.opts.ChromeWSUrl != "") { | |
| _, _ = proto.TargetCloseTarget{TargetID: id}.Call(browser.Browser) | |
| } | |
| // A backgrounded page never repaints, which stalls rod's repaint waits. | |
| // With an external browser the user's tabs or a noopener popup can still | |
| // be in front after cleanup. | |
| if err := proto.PageBringToFront{}.Call(browser.Page); err != nil { | |
| l.discardBrowserPage(browser) | |
| return | |
| } | |
| l.browserPool.Put(browser) |
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Review comment at @pkg/engine/headless/browser/browser.go around lines 667 -
680:
Update the PageBringToFront call in the browser cleanup path to check its error;
if foregrounding fails, discard the browser page with discardBrowserPage and
return instead of adding it to browserPool. Preserve the existing pooling
behavior when foregrounding succeeds.
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Fixes #1866
Proposed changes
When Katana attaches to an externally managed Chrome instance using
-chrome-ws-url,PutBrowserToPoolcurrently closes every browser tab except Katana's current page.Although
CloseBrowserPagecorrectly avoids closing the browser itself whenChromeWSUrlis set, closing all externally owned tabs can still terminate the external Chrome instance once Katana closes its own page.This change skips the cleanup of other browser tabs when Katana is connected to an externally managed Chrome instance.
Katana should only manage pages it owns and should not close tabs belonging to the caller.
Root cause
PutBrowserToPoolcurrently enumerates every page in the connected browser and closes all pages except the current Katana page:This behavior is appropriate for a browser launched and owned by Katana, but not for an external browser supplied through
ChromeWSUrl.The change therefore returns the page to Katana's pool without touching other tabs when
ChromeWSUrlis set.Proof
Reproduced against the current
devbranch:c1de26dbe69764a92dfa9a142eb64035e5d05a9dExternal Chrome was started with remote debugging enabled and Katana was attached using:
Before the change, after Katana exited:
failed because the externally managed Chrome instance had terminated.
After the change:
The externally managed browser and its existing tabs remain available after Katana finishes.
Full test suite also passes:
go test ./...Checklist
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