WebUI.navigateToUrl() gets stuck uncontrolled if the called URL loads endlessly

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## Operating System:

  • Windows 10

## Katalon Studio Version:

  • 5.7.1

## Katalon Studio logs:

  • Not availble (see below)

## Environment for Web testing

  • Only tested with Chrome (latest release), but probably irrelevant

## Steps to reproduce

try {    WebUI.navigateToUrl('https://example.com/endlessly_loading_webpage/')}catch (Exception e) {    // This code is not executed when endlessly loading webpage is called:
    this.println 'Error loading webpage.'}// This code is not executed when endlessly loading webpage is called:this.println 'TestCase is continued.'

## Expected Behavior

  • When calling a webpage that cannot be fully loaded within the browser timeout (or a custom timeout implemented by Katalon), an exception should be raised that can be caught using try-catch blocks.
  • The control should then be returned to Katalon Studio so that the executed TestCase or TestSuite can be properly terminated and a report can be generated.

## Actual Behavior

  • When calling a webpage that cannot be fully loaded within the browser timeout, no exception is thrown that could be caught by try-catch blocks.
  • Instead, the executed TestCase or TestSuite gets stuck uncontrolled, so that no report can be generated.

Please note:

  • Unfortunately I can’t name a URL that is reliably loaded endlessly, because we only noticed the problem with multiple calls of webpages, which very rarely can’t be loaded to the end.
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