[QA] download related e2e tests fail on chromium-based browser when playwright tracing is enabled

[PrajwolAmatya]

Description

Multiple builds are failing on keycloak tests while downloading resources via sidebar panel.

     And "Carol" navigates to the shared with me page # tests/e2e/cucumber/steps/ui/shares.ts:136
   ✖ And "Carol" downloads the following resources using the sidebar panel # tests/e2e/cucumber/steps/ui/resources.ts:105
       | resource      | from      | type   |
       | data.zip      | meal plan | file   |
       | lorem.txt     | meal plan | file   |
       | lorem-big.txt | meal plan | file   |
       | meal plan     |           | folder |
       locator.click: Timeout 30000ms exceeded.
       =========================== logs ===========================
       waiting for locator('.oc-files-actions-show-details-trigger')
       ============================================================
           at openForResource (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/support/objects/app-files/utils/sidebar.ts:16:64)
           at async Object.open (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/support/objects/app-files/utils/sidebar.ts:51:14)
           at async Object.downloadResources (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/support/objects/app-files/resource/actions.ts:675:9)
           at async Resource.download (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/support/objects/app-files/resource/index.ts:66:23)
           at async processDownload (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/cucumber/steps/ui/resources.ts:492:17)
           at async World.<anonymous> (/var/www/owncloud/web/tests/e2e/cucumber/steps/ui/resources.ts:110:5)

Builds:

• https://drone.owncloud.com/owncloud/web/47326
• https://drone.owncloud.com/owncloud/web/47327
• https://drone.owncloud.com/owncloud/web/47330
• https://drone.owncloud.com/owncloud/web/47331
• https://drone.owncloud.com/owncloud/web/47334

[saw-jan]

This is reproducable only when running test with REPORT_TRACING=true. 😮‍💨
and in CI we have REPORT_TRACING=true for keycloak pipeline

[saw-jan]

Tracing config fix: #11571

[saw-jan]

Looks like the playwright tracing tracing.start breaks the web when using download action

[saw-jan]

Doesn't look like a problem with ocis or web. The problem might be with playwright library

[saw-jan]

might be a google-chrome version: tests were working with Google Chrome 123.0.6312.105 but started failing with Google Chrome 128.0.6613.119
Version got updated with the recent build of owncloudci/nodejs image

[saw-jan]

With the latest chromium-based browser and playwright tracing enabled, the HEAD request to download file causes the Sign In alert to appear. I don't think we can do anything from the test code

web/packages/web-client/src/webdav/getFileUrl.ts

Line 45 in 9a93ca2

await axiosClient.head(downloadURL)

[saw-jan]

Re-test it with the latest chromium/chrome browser

[PrajwolAmatya]

Tested with chromium version 131.0.6778.108 and REPORT_TRACING=true, we still get the same failure. Sign In alert appears during the download step.

[PrajwolAmatya]

Tested with chromium version 131.0.6778.108 and REPORT_TRACING=true, we still get the same failure. Sign In alert appears during the download step.

Moving this to backlog for now.