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Headless chrome / Firefox with link click download

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Description

Hi All

We have observed file download by clicking link button or button click in headless mode for chrome as well as firefox is not working.

Observed it was working without headless. Looks like an an issue.

I have attached sample code below. Please help us over come this issue.

*** Settings ***
Documentation File Upload Download in Robot Framework

Library OperatingSystem
Library SeleniumLibrary

*** Variables ***
${Browser}
${site}

*** Test Cases ***
Verify File Upload
Open Browser https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download headlesschrome
Goto https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download
Capture Page Screenshot
Click Link //a[contains(text(),'example.json')]
Sleep 5
Close Browser

*** Keywords ***

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Research direction

Run the supplied Robot Framework example against https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/download using headless Chrome and Firefox, then compare it with non-headless runs. Confirm whether the example.json link download fails in both headless modes; done means the download works or the issue is documented as belonging outside SeleniumLibrary.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
testing-qa
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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