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fix(webdriver): Fix no retrying requests when unexpected token on responses occurs (like on HTML responses)#14760

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fix(webdriver): Fix no retrying requests when unexpected token on responses occurs (like on HTML responses)#14760
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@Nyaran Nyaran commented Sep 11, 2025

Fixes #14759

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I don't think we want these responses to not throw. For example: what if the WebDriver server returns a 200 with HTML content. We should ensure the response we get is a valid WebDriver command response.

Nyaran and others added 2 commits September 22, 2025 09:19
…ponses occurs (like on HTML responses)

 - Rework to throw an error with the status code and the raw body

Fixes webdriverio#14759
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Nyaran commented Sep 22, 2025

I did some changes to throw an error on parse error, and pass the responseCode and raw body to the WebDriverRequestError instance, so the retry mechanism can run

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LGTM 👍

@christian-bromann christian-bromann added the PR: Bug Fix 🐛 PRs that contain bug fixes label Sep 23, 2025
@christian-bromann christian-bromann merged commit 59c906c into webdriverio:main Sep 23, 2025
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[🐛 Bug]: Unexpected token on failing request with HTML response. Is not retrying the request

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