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cypress open --config baseUrl=https://... won't open

I can't manage to open cypress in my windows machine (this is the CI environment) when I pass --config:

  1. In cmd.exe, if I type npx cypress open cypress opens just fine;
  2. If I instead type npx cypress open --config baseUrl=https://... then nothing appears and the command terminates without printing anything in the terminal.

In the second case, echo %errorlevel% prints 0.

I can reproduce the problem with cypress run: passing a --config baseUrl=... parameter breaks it.

I'm using cypress package and binary 3.6.0. cypress verify is happy.

Solution

  • This regression was introduced in 3.5.0 which came bundled with new Electron, where the underlying issue seems to be this Electron PR: electron/electron#13039 (h/t Jennifer Sheane), which is fixing a security issue and is unlikely to be reverted/handled differently any time soon.

    It was tracked in the Cypress GitHub bug cypress shows error in Windows when passing args containing a url in 3.5.0 #5466.

    The regression is fixed in Cypress 3.8.0 (ref: a comment by Robert DROP TABLE STUDENTS).