Katalon does not support Data URLs (rfc2397)

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I have a new finding on Data URI support in Katalon Studio. I made 2 TestCase scripts.

Test Cases/research/1_webui_navigateToUrl_data`

import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI

WebUI.openBrowser('')
WebUI.navigateToUrl("data:text/html,<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")

The 1st script opened a browser, navigated to the URL:

  • file:///Users/<username>/<projectdir>/data:text/html,%3Ch1%3EHello,%20world!%3C/h1%3E

However, the file is not present. The browser showed the following view, which is obviously unsatisfactory:

research_1
research_12644×1022 224 KB

Test Cases/research/2_webdriver_navigate_data

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver

import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI

WebUI.openBrowser('')
WebDriver driver = DriverFactory.getWebDriver()
driver.navigate().to("data:text/html,<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")

The 2nd script opened a browser, navigated to the URI:

  • data:text/html,<h1>Hello, world!</h1>

The browser showed the following view. my Goodness!

research_2
research_21664×1028 143 KB

This experiment showed me that the Selenium WebDriver API supports data: URI with no problem. On the other hand, Katalon’s WebUI API mis-interprets a data: URI to be a file: URL.

Therefore, I have got 2 points.

  1. If you bother yourself to call WebDriver API in your Test Case, you can use data: URI now.
  2. How WebUI.openBrowser(String url) and WebUI.navigateTo(String url) make mis-interpretation? I will look at the source code.

I hope that I would be able to modify the implementation of these keywords dynamically by Groovy’s Meta-programming technique to work-around the bug.