Three DOM-completeness gaps that broke jQuery 1.11.3 init and Playwright
actionability:
1. Element.attributes was undefined, so legacy IE feature-detect code
like div.attributes[eventName].expando threw TypeError. Added a
NamedNodeMap-like backed by a new attribute_names DOM op (length,
numeric index, string name lookup, getNamedItem/setNamedItem,
iterable).
2. Standard on* event handler properties were missing from window, so
('on' + ev) in window returned false and forced jQuery into the
legacy IE branch. Initialised the 79 HTML-spec on* handlers to null.
3. getBoundingClientRect returned the same {x:8,y:8,width:100,height:20}
literal for every element, so Playwright's hit-testing couldn't tell
elements apart. Replaced with a deterministic synthesis from _nid
mapped into a 12-column grid sized to a 1280x720 viewport. Still not
pixel-accurate (no layout engine), but stable across reads and
distinct per node.
- Element.querySelector / querySelectorAll scope to the receiver subtree
via a new query_selector_scoped Rust op, not always document root.
Same for DocumentFragment.
- setTimeout respects its delay argument via a new async op_sleep.
setInterval is a real repeating timer instead of an alias to setTimeout.
- document.forms / images / links return live querySelectorAll results
instead of hardcoded [].
- HTMLFormElement subclasses Element with .elements / .length, and form
nodes are wrapped as HTMLFormElement so instanceof works. submit()
stays on Element.prototype to preserve the existing submit-event
dispatch and form-data navigation path.
- Element.prepend has a real implementation.
- Node.isEqualNode does a structural compare (nodeType, nodeName,
nodeValue, attributes, recursive children) instead of nid identity.
- Fix long-standing insert_before arg-order bug: bootstrap.js was
passing (parent, new, ref) but _dom only forwards two args, so ref
was silently dropped. Pass (new, ref) directly. Same fix in
replaceChild.
Adds 3 selector unit tests and 6 runtime regression tests covering
the JS shim fixes.
Closes#105.
Playwright fails locator actions on Obscura for two avoidable reasons
that are separate from the missing layout engine. Both have trivial
fixes that unblock the actionability polling loop.
- Element.checkVisibility(opts) was undefined. Playwright >= 1.25 calls
it before every input event and retries until its action timeout if
the method isn't a function. Add a stub that returns true. Without a
layout pass we can't compute it for real, but a permissive stub still
beats the undefined-function path.
- ARIA reflection properties were missing on Element (role, ariaLabel,
ariaSelected, ariaExpanded, ariaHidden, ariaChecked, ariaDisabled,
ariaRoleDescription). Playwright's getByRole and getByLabel locators
read them. Reflect through to the underlying aria-* attributes for
both read and write.
- DOM.getBoxModel and DOM.getContentQuads ignored the objectId param.
Playwright passes only objectId (from a prior DOM.resolveNode), and
the handlers silently defaulted to node 0, so dispatchMouseEvent
always clicked the wrong element. Extract a resolve_node_id helper
that honors nodeId, backendNodeId, and objectId in that order.
- Page.captureScreenshot and Page.captureSnapshot now return a clear
"not supported, use a real Chromium for the screenshot leg" error
instead of the generic "Unknown Page method" fallback. Matches the
pattern already in place for Page.printToPDF.
Partial fix for #45. The architectural blocker (no layout engine, so
multi-element click coordinates are wrong) is unchanged.
fix(dom): add missing DOM/JS shims for modern frameworks
Closes#163.
Adds missing DOM and JS shims required by modern frameworks (Svelte 5,
Vue, Lit) and consent-management SDKs to execute without errors:
- Define the `Storage` global constructor to resolve `ReferenceError`s
and fix `Storage.prototype` access.
- Apply standard ChildNode methods (`before`, `after`, `replaceWith`,
`remove`) to `CharacterData.prototype`. This prevents `TypeError`s when
frameworks call these on Text or Comment nodes during hydration.
- Update `Element.prototype.isConnected` to perform a genuine parent-walk
rather than returning a hardcoded `true`.
- Fix `Element.prototype.remove` to properly clean up the internal ID
index so removed elements are no longer queryable.
- Remove outdated no-op stubs on the `Element` class that were shadowing
the proper polyfill implementations.
- about: URL scheme now handled in navigate_single instead of
hitting validate_url and failing with "Forbidden URL scheme"
- DOM.getBoxModel calls getBoundingClientRect via JS instead of
returning hardcoded pixel coords
- DOM.getContentQuads added (was missing, needed by Playwright click)
- globalThis._wrap exposed so CDP eval code can look up nodes by id
- globalThis.self = globalThis for webpack/bundler worker detection
document.readyState was hardcoded to "complete" so scripts checking
readyState === 'loading' always took the wrong branch. Fixed by using a
JS global (__documentReadyState__) that Rust sets to "loading" before
any scripts execute, "interactive" before DOMContentLoaded fires, and
"complete" after load.
document.addEventListener and document.dispatchEvent on Document were
no-ops, so DOMContentLoaded listeners registered by inline scripts were
never called. Added proper listener storage and dispatch on Document.
Adds document.getElementsByName() (was missing entirely).
Page.reload is now implemented (re-navigates to the current URL),
resolving "Unknown Page method: reload" errors from Playwright.
data: URL navigation now works, fixing Playwright's goto("data:text/html,...")
pattern that previously errored with "invalid format".
Page.navigate logic extracted into do_navigate() so reload can reuse it.
Fixes#137, #146 (SPA bootstrap lifecycle ordering).
GHSA-8v6v-g4rh-jmcm: op_fetch_url validated the initial URL through
validate_fetch_url, but reqwest auto-followed up to 10 redirects with
no further checks. An attacker-allowed origin could 302 to
http://127.0.0.1 (or any private/internal address) and read the body
back to page JS. Real-world impact: AWS instance metadata, kube
debug consoles, internal admin endpoints with permissive CORS all
become readable from a page hosted anywhere on the open web.
Disable reqwest's auto-redirect and follow manually. Apply
validate_fetch_url to every redirect target before requesting it.
Cap the chain at 10 hops to match prior behaviour. Browser-standard
method/body rules apply on cross-method redirects (301/302/303
downgrade to GET with no body, 307/308 preserve).
Verified vs unpatched build (pr69):
- Patched: attacker-page -> 302 -> http://127.0.0.1:N is blocked
with "Redirect to forbidden URL blocked: Access to private IP..."
before the internal hop runs. Legitimate 3-hop redirect chain
between allowed origins still completes.
- Unpatched: internal-service body leaks through to page JS via
fetch().then(r => r.text()).
Two improvements while investigating #147:
1. `obscura --version` / `-V` now print the CARGO_PKG_VERSION instead of
erroring out. The issue reporter explicitly called out that there was
no version flag, and the existing `obscura serve` banner is the only
way to discover the version.
2. New regression test in obscura-js verifies that a TypeError thrown
from one script does not poison the runtime: subsequent scripts and
DOM queries must continue to work. The reporter's symptom was that
offside.js crashing collapsed --dump text output to 1 byte; that
cascade should never happen and this test pins it down.
The classList error itself is offside.js's own bug (it indexes into the
querySelectorAll result without checking for an empty array) and only
fires when the .slideout-navigation element is absent from the DOM.
On current main that element parses correctly and offside.js runs
without error against a captured copy of the affected page.
* feat(cli): add --v8-flags plumbing to configure V8 at startup (#130)
Obscura had no way to pass flags to V8, so users hitting OOM on pages
larger than ~5MB had no escape hatch. Adds a generic passthrough rather
than a one-off heap knob, so future V8 tuning needs no new code.
- New `obscura_js::set_v8_flags` (Once-guarded, empty-string no-op).
- Global `--v8-flags <FLAGS>` arg with `allow_hyphen_values = true`,
applied once in `main` before any isolate is created.
- Usage: `obscura --v8-flags "--max-old-space-size=4096" fetch <url>`.
Closes#130.
* test(cli): expand --v8-flags coverage with normalize helper
Extract normalize_v8_flags() from main() so the trim/empty-check logic
is unit-testable without needing to invoke V8. Adds parse-coverage tests
for --v8-flags with serve/scrape subcommands and empty-string values,
plus pure-function tests for the normalizer.
Fixes the remaining two paths from #139: JS-level fetch()/XHR
(op_fetch_url) and dynamic ES module imports (ObscuraModuleLoader) both
built their reqwest clients with `Client::builder().build()` — no
proxy — so every JS-initiated network call silently bypassed
BrowserContext.proxy_url. (The third path, StealthHttpClient, was
already fixed in main: page.rs:61 uses with_proxy.)
Changes:
* obscura-net: expose ObscuraHttpClient::proxy_url() so callers outside
the crate can route their own reqwest requests through the same
upstream proxy. The field was already there — just lacked an accessor.
* obscura-js/module_loader: add `proxy_url: Option<String>` and
`with_proxy(base_url, proxy_url)`. ObscuraModuleLoader::new keeps the
pre-#139 direct-connection behaviour. load() builds a reqwest client
per import, threading the proxy and bubbling up "Invalid module proxy"
on bad URLs.
* obscura-js/ops.rs: replace the process-wide
`static SHARED_HTTP_CLIENT: OnceLock<reqwest::Client>` (which could
never be reconfigured after first call) with a per-request
`build_request_client(proxy_url)` that pulls the configured proxy out
of SharedState.http_client.proxy_url() each call. Per-request build
cost is ~1ms vs the network round-trip, and we no longer have a
global singleton that lies about its config.
* obscura-js/runtime: add ObscuraJsRuntime::with_base_url_and_proxy.
with_base_url delegates to it with None so existing tests / callers
are unaffected.
* obscura-browser/page.rs: thread context.proxy_url through to
with_base_url_and_proxy when constructing the JS runtime.
Surfaces the existing LP.getMarkdown CDP machinery as a CLI flag so
text-pipeline users (LLM agents, scrapers feeding markdown to other
tools) don't need a separate HTML-to-markdown converter step.
obscura fetch --dump markdown 'https://example.com'
Layout:
- crates/obscura-js/src/markdown.rs holds HTML_TO_MARKDOWN_JS as a
pub const so every layer can share the same DOM-walker. obscura-js
is at the bottom of the dep DAG (obscura-browser -> obscura-js,
obscura-cdp -> obscura-js, obscura-cli -> obscura-js) so a single
source of truth works without a circular dependency.
- crates/obscura-browser/src/lib.rs re-exports it for ergonomics.
- crates/obscura-cdp/src/domains/lp.rs drops its inline duplicate
and calls the shared const.
- crates/obscura-cli/src/main.rs adds the `Markdown` DumpFormat
variant + dump_markdown(&mut Page) which page.evaluate's the
shared script and prints the result.
Net diff: a new 75-line markdown.rs, a 70+ line deletion in lp.rs
that's reborn as 3 lines, and ~10 lines added across the other four
files. No behavior change for `--dump html|text|links`, and
LP.getMarkdown over CDP keeps the exact same JSON shape.
Four new unit tests in obscura-js cover headings, inline emphasis +
links, ordered/unordered lists, and that <script> / <style> contents
do not leak into the output.
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* fix(#19): serialize V8 work across pages with process-wide async lock
Concurrent CDP clients (≥5) trip V8's
`heap->isolate() == Isolate::TryGetCurrent()` invariant and abort the
process via V8_Fatal — no Rust panic, just abort(3). Each Page owns its
own JsRuntime/Isolate and they all run on a single OS thread via
LocalSet+spawn_local; when two pages' V8-touching futures interleave
across an .await, V8 trips the check.
This adds a process-wide tokio::sync::Mutex (obscura_js::v8_lock) that
is acquired:
- At the top of obscura_cdp::dispatch::dispatch (covers every CDP
handler that may call into a JsRuntime).
- In server.rs's process_with_interception spawn_local that runs
page.navigate_with_wait + execute_preload_script (this path
bypasses dispatch).
The guard keeps each V8-touching block contiguous on the thread: V8
fully exits one Isolate before another page is allowed in. Trade-off:
non-V8 handlers (Browser.*, Storage.*, Emulation.*) also serialize,
but those are cheap and the safety win dominates.
The properly concurrent fix is to pin each JsRuntime to its own OS
thread and message-pass; tracked as the larger #19 follow-up.
Adds an opt-in smoke test (`--ignored`) that boots the CDP server and
runs 5 parallel clients through createTarget+navigate. Note: the
deterministic abort needs subresource-fetch yields (page.rs:285
join_all) which data: URLs skip — full repro requires JS-heavy real
traffic (issue author used scrapegraphai.com).
* fix(#19): suspend other Isolates and defer foreign CDP during interception nav
Address maintainer feedback on PR #36 (comment 4328238087): the V8 fatal
still reproduces with `Fetch.enable patterns:["*"]` + 5 concurrent
`Page.navigate`s. The `obscura_js::v8_lock` mutex was insufficient
because V8's actual invariant is "only one Isolate may be entered per
OS thread", and the mutex can't enforce that across `.await` points
inside V8 ops.
Two distinct paths violated the invariant:
1. Foreign CDP messages dispatched while a nav task was running.
`process_with_interception`'s `select!` routed every non-Fetch
message through `process_cdp_message → dispatch → page::handle::*`.
`get_session_page_mut` then `suspend_js`'es other pages (drops
their `JsRuntime` → `Isolate::Exit`) while the spawned nav task is
parked at `op_fetch_url`'s `resolve_rx.await` with its Isolate
still entered. Drop trips
`heap->isolate() == Isolate::TryGetCurrent()`.
2. Subsequent navs through `process_with_interception` did not
suspend prior pages. After nav-1 completes (page-1's JsRuntime
stays alive in `ctx.pages`), nav-2's `init_js` constructs
Isolate-2 while Isolate-1 is still current. The next V8 scope
unwind aborts via `Context::Exit`.
Fix (3 changes in `crates/obscura-cdp/src/server.rs`):
- `cdp_processor`: add a `VecDeque<ServerMessage> deferred` drained
before each new `rx.recv()`, so deferred messages are processed
with no nav task in flight.
- `process_with_interception` `select!`: only handle `NewConnection`
and `Fetch.{continue,fulfill,fail}Request` inline (safe — no V8
enter on this side); push everything else into `deferred`.
- `process_with_interception` entry: explicitly `suspend_js()` every
other page in `ctx.pages` before spawning the nav task, mirroring
the invariant the regular dispatch path already enforces via
`get_session_page_mut`.
Verification:
- New test `crates/obscura-cdp/tests/concurrent_navigations_with_fetch.rs`
is the maintainer's exact repro (5 clients, `Fetch.enable patterns:["*"]`,
concurrent `Page.navigate` to https://example.com, auto-reply
`Fetch.continueRequest`). Aborts on PR #36 head, passes after fix
(5/5 stable runs, ~1.2s each).
- Existing data-URL smoke test (`concurrent_navigations`) still passes.
- Full workspace test suite (90 tests) still passes.
Run with:
cargo test -p obscura-cdp --test concurrent_navigations_with_fetch \
-- --nocapture --ignored
Honest caveat. This is still the lock/serialize approach — it converts
the abort into latency. The properly concurrent fix (Option 2 in
issue #19: pin each `JsRuntime` to its own OS thread and message-pass)
remains the right long-term direction.
* fix(cdp): bound deferred message queue to prevent OOM during stalled navigation
PR #36 comment 4341743194: process_with_interception deferred foreign
CDP messages into an unbounded VecDeque while a navigation task was in
flight. A stalled navigation (e.g. waiting for Fetch interception
resolution) could accumulate arbitrary queued messages and OOM the
process.
Add MAX_DEFERRED_MESSAGES = 256. When the cap is reached, return an
explicit CDP error (-32000) to the client instead of silently dropping
or growing without bound.
All 90 workspace tests pass.
- obscura-net/cookies.rs: #[allow(dead_code)] on CookieEntry.same_site
(parsed today, kept for future SameSite enforcement).
- obscura-js/runtime.rs: drop vestigial BOOTSTRAP_JS const; bootstrap.js
is already embedded into the V8 snapshot via build.rs.
- obscura-js/ops.rs: prefix the four unused fields in
InterceptResolution::Continue with _.
- obscura-cdp/dispatch.rs: drop unused InterceptResolution import.
- obscura-cdp/domains/fetch.rs: drop unused Arc / Mutex / CdpEvent imports.
- obscura-cdp/domains/input.rs: prefix _button / _click_count; CDP
parses them but the JS click stub is hardcoded for now.
- obscura-cdp/server.rs: prefix _processor_handle and _ctx; drop dead
initial Ok(())/None for navigate_result/page_back - they are
unconditionally overwritten in the only loop break arm.
cargo build --workspace: 0 warnings.
cargo test --workspace: 113 passed.
document.elementFromPoint(x, y) was undefined, which caused Google
Publisher Tag, viewability libs and any code doing hit-testing to
throw on bootstrap and trigger retry loops in the surrounding
framework. This is one of the throwing APIs feeding into the wedge
described in #62.
Without a layout engine we can't return the actual topmost element,
but a non-throwing stub is strictly better than "undefined" for the
headless-scraping use case:
- coords inside the viewport return document.body (or
document.documentElement as a fallback) so callers that just want
a hit target stop throwing
- coords outside the viewport (negative, > innerWidth/innerHeight,
NaN/Infinity) return null per spec
- elementsFromPoint mirrors the same shape but returns a one- or
zero-length array
- ShadowRoot.prototype gets the same treatment for completeness
Five new unit tests in obscura-js cover function presence, in-viewport
hit, out-of-viewport coords, non-numeric input, and the array shape.
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document.createEvent('CustomEvent') was returning a generic Event,
so the legacy DOM Level 2 pattern
var e = document.createEvent('CustomEvent');
e.initCustomEvent('foo', true, false, payload);
threw "TypeError: e.initCustomEvent is not a function" because the
returned object was an Event, not a CustomEvent — and CustomEvent
didn't define initCustomEvent anyway. The Starbucks China bundle
(and a long tail of other CDN bundles using the same shim) depended
on this and aborted bootstrap.
Two changes in crates/obscura-js/js/bootstrap.js:
1. Add CustomEvent.prototype.initCustomEvent(type, bubbles, cancelable,
detail) matching the spec.
2. Rewrite Document.prototype.createEvent so it dispatches to the
right class based on the type string ('CustomEvent', 'MouseEvent',
'MouseEvents', 'KeyboardEvent', 'FocusEvent', 'InputEvent',
'UIEvent', 'WheelEvent', 'PointerEvent', 'ErrorEvent',
'PopStateEvent', 'AnimationEvent', 'TransitionEvent', and
case-insensitive 'Events' aliases). The HTMLDocument variant on
the second Document class delegates to the canonical impl.
Spec note: createEvent returns the event with an empty type until
init*Event() is called — matched exactly.
Four new unit tests cover initCustomEvent presence and field setters,
class dispatch for CustomEvent / MouseEvent / MouseEvents / KeyboardEvent,
and the unknown-type fallback to Event.
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jQuery DataTables references the standard CharacterData interface which
was undefined in obscura's DOM environment, causing ReferenceError and
empty page renders.
- Add CharacterData class extending Node with data/length/substringData/
appendData/insertData/deleteData/replaceData
- Make Text and Comment extend CharacterData instead of Node
- Update _wrap() to create proper Text/Comment instances by nodeType
- Add create_comment_node op for Document.createComment()
- Fix set_text_content to handle Comment node mutations
Fixes#72
Co-authored-by: KuaaMU <[email protected]>
Fixes#1: replace unwrap() panics in run_multi_worker_serve with match on the Result.
Fixes#2: route /json round-robin via worker_port instead of hardcoded port+1.
Fixes#3: return 502 Bad Gateway when a worker is unreachable instead of silently dropping the connection.
Fixes#5: thread --stealth through start_with_options -> CdpContext -> BrowserContext::with_options so the flag actually has an effect in serve mode (was let _ before). Log message now reflects the actual capability based on the stealth cargo feature being compiled in.
Fixes#15: try/catch the parentNode assignment in the attachShadow polyfill so it doesn't throw a TypeError against the read-only Node.parentNode getter (Cloudflare Turnstile triggers this path).
Brings Obscura's CDP server in line with what Playwright's
`chromium.connectOverCDP()` expects. Each fix is small and surgical;
together they make `connect → newContext → newPage → goto → page.title()`
work end-to-end against `https://example.com`.
1. **server.rs — emit pending events before command response.**
Chromium CDP semantics require side-effect events (e.g.
`Target.targetCreated` + `Target.attachedToTarget` from
`Target.createTarget`) to arrive *before* the originating command's
response. Playwright's wire reader assumes this ordering — it
resolves the response promise on the response and then synchronously
looks up the freshly-created session. Reversing the order makes that
lookup miss and the page hang at `newPage()`.
2. **domains/browser.rs — accept Browser.setWindowBounds as a no-op.**
Playwright calls `Browser.setWindowBounds` during teardown. Returning
"Unknown Browser method" causes Playwright to treat the target as
broken and tear it down mid-test, surfacing as "Frame has been
detached" on the next `page.title()`.
3. **obscura-browser/page.rs — frame_id == target_id for main frame.**
Was `format!("{id}.1", id)`. Playwright's frame manager indexes
frames by frame id and looks up the main frame by target id, so the
`.1` suffix made every main-frame lookup miss.
4. **domains/page.rs + dispatch.rs — track isolated worlds and re-emit
them post-navigation.** Playwright registers a utility world via
`Page.createIsolatedWorld` and expects `Runtime.executionContextCreated`
for each registered world after every navigation. Without re-emission,
the utility-world handle goes stale post-`goto` and `page.title()`
hangs waiting for the world's execution context. Falls back to the
legacy `__puppeteer_utility_world__24.40.0` name when no worlds have
been registered, preserving prior Puppeteer support.
5. **obscura-js/runtime.rs — strip trailing semicolons before wrapping.**
Playwright's utility-script expression is an IIFE ending in `})();`.
Both `wrap_expression` (CDP `Runtime.evaluate`) and `evaluate_for_cdp`
(the `meta_code` IIFE) embed the user expression inside `({EXPR})` /
`return ({EXPR});`. With the trailing `;` left in, this produces
`({...;})` — a SyntaxError. Parse errors are not catchable, so the
surrounding try/catch never fires and the call silently returns
`undefined`, surfacing as `page.title() === ""`.
Verified end-to-end against `https://example.com`:
[probe] connect OK
[probe] newContext OK
[probe] newPage OK
[probe] goto OK
[probe] title = Example Domain
Allow loading local HTML/CSS/JS files via the file:// protocol,
enabling Obscura to be used for testing static sites without
running a local HTTP server.
Changes:
- Allow "file" scheme in validate_url() and validate_fetch_url()
- Add fetch_file_url() to read local files and return synthetic
HTTP responses with appropriate content-type headers
- Skip private IP / localhost checks for file:// URLs
Closes#16
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