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fix(server,desktop): browser tools report why a page failed to load - #18588
After loading https://self-signed.badssl.com/ in the Browser panel, preview_status and preview_snapshot show Chromium's error-page URL without a direct explanation of the failed navigation. Agents cannot reliably identify the failed URL and browser error from those results.
Change
Status and snapshots include an optional loadError containing the failed URL, browser error code, and description. Server-rendered tabs retain main-frame failures; desktop-rendered tabs forward failures that happen before server attachment. A new main-frame navigation clears the diagnostic, and replaced guests cannot overwrite the current tab's failure. Diagnostic URLs retain the existing data: payload redaction.
Preserves robertnisipeanu's implementation and the existing takeover work, with main merged into the branch.
All four rows and eight tool reads passed using the real ServerBrowser, broker, and Chromium 148.0.7778.96 on Linux at 1280×800 with isolated temporary state. Fixture infrastructure used T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0.
Two fresh independent reviews of the complete final diff found no blocking bugs.
This changes tool output without a rendered UI change; the visual fixture matrix is empty. cannot-verify desktop: live Electron and native mobile execution were not verified on this Linux VM. Desktop attachment and guest replacement are covered by focused tests.
Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol through the Claude and Codex harnesses in T3 Code; reviewed with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol.
When a page fails to load in a T3 browser tab, preview_status and
preview_snapshot show only chrome-error://chromewebdata/, so agents cannot
tell why. Both now include loadError with the failed URL, the browser's
error code, and its description while the tab shows the error page.
Server-rendered tabs record the failure from Playwright's requestfailed on
main-frame navigations and clear it when the next navigation starts.
Desktop-rendered tabs can fail their first load before the server connects,
so the desktop forwards did-fail-load for server tabs over the desktop
browser channel as a loadFailed event, including failures from before the
webview registered with its tab. The server uses the desktop's report only
until it observes a navigation itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Browser tools now report why a page failed to load, including failures occurring before desktop attachment. The change is limited to diagnostic reporting, with safeguards against stale failures and no changes to product defaults.
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Walkthrough
Desktop and server preview code now captures page-load failures and exposes failure URLs, codes, and descriptions through preview status and snapshots. The desktop flow also retains failures that occur before a tab is registered and forwards them when the tab attaches.
Changes: Preview load error reporting
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Summary
Capture and report desktop failures packages/contracts/src/desktopBrowser.ts, packages/contracts/src/previewAutomation.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts
The contracts define load-failure events and optional load-error results. Desktop preview code tracks failures before tab registration, reports failures for attached tabs, and ignores stale guest events. Tests cover guest replacement and retry behavior.
Retain desktop failures in the server channel apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts
The channel stores failures by tab, truncates stored URLs to 2,048 characters, exposes a lookup, and clears failures on detach or stream cleanup.
Expose failures in preview results apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
ServerBrowser retains main-frame failures and includes them in status and snapshots when the page displays Chromium’s error page. Tests cover server tabs, desktop tabs, subframe failures, navigation resets, and sanitized data URLs.
sequenceDiagram
participant PreviewManager
participant DesktopBrowserHost
participant DesktopBrowserChannel
participant ServerBrowser
PreviewManager->>DesktopBrowserHost: report failure for attached tab
DesktopBrowserHost->>DesktopBrowserChannel: emit loadFailed event
ServerBrowser->>DesktopBrowserChannel: look up failure for desktop tab
DesktopBrowserChannel-->>ServerBrowser: return stored failure details
ServerBrowser-->>ServerBrowser: include available loadError in status or snapshot
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#7212 — The change adds failed-navigation details to preview_status and preview_snapshot; the blank-panel UI remains outside its scope.
pingdotgg/t3code#17009 — The change forwards desktop guest failures that occur before server attachment, but does not repair desktop host attachment.
Suggested reviewers:maria-rcks
Merge Risk: Low · up to dab05
This change adds load-failure diagnostics to preview status and snapshots. Normal flows should work as intended. A narrow edge case remains where a missed Playwright failure event can leave the diagnostic missing, so owners should be aware of it, but it does not block merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 30c0b
The change adds optional failure diagnostics without granting additional browser control or weakening certificate checks. Tab ownership checks limit attribution errors. Remaining uncertainty concerns diagnostic delivery during startup and recovery rather than a demonstrated security bypass.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The added exposure is failed-navigation diagnostic data for a selected preview tab. Existing reads permit inspecting other tabs in the same thread; the examined changes do not introduce cross-thread selection or additional browser-control authority.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — Navigation targets can influence the reported URL. In the examined flow, URL, code, and description remain diagnostic output; they are not used to execute commands, grant browser control, or alter certificate policy. No introduced attack path was established through these consumers.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The server accepts failure reports through its existing desktop event stream. Attribution relies on desktop ownership checks and thread/tab keys; the new event carries no navigation command or additional privilege.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Diagnostic recovery is not proven lossless. If a failure is published before the event-stream subscription exists, later announcement replays attachment only. Process-spawner subscription ordering remains unresolved, so this is a possible omission of diagnostics, not an established security-control failure.
Pre-merge checks: 4
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The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: browser tools now report why a page failed to load. It uses a suitable conventional commit format.
Description check
The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the affected components, linked issue, focused test results, runtime evidence, known verif…
Linked Issues check
The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#18555]. Contracts add optional loadError data with the failed URL, browser error code, and description to preview_status and preview_snapshot. `Serv…
Out of Scope Changes check
The changes remain within [#18555]. Contract changes, server handling, desktop forwarding, documentation-level schema changes, and focused tests directly support load-failure reporting. No unrelated c…
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The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#18555]. Contracts add optional loadError data with the failed URL, browser error code, and description to preview_status and preview_snapshot. ServerBrowser records main-frame failures, clears the diagnostic on new navigation, preserves the required page-state condition, and applies data: URL redaction. Desktop host, manager, and channel changes forward failures that occur before server attachment and reject replaced-guest failures. Focused server and desktop tests cover reporting, clearing, forwarding, guest replacement, and redaction.
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The changes remain within [#18555]. Contract changes, server handling, desktop forwarding, documentation-level schema changes, and focused tests directly support load-failure reporting. No unrelated change is identified.
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apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts
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apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts:
- Around line 195-196: Update DesktopBrowserHost to retain each attached tab’s
current load failure instead of relying on PubSub replay. In loadFailed, store
or replace the failure; in announceAll, emit it after that tab’s attached event,
and clear it when navigation starts or the tab detaches.
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- Around line 1326-1327: Move the `desktopChannel.loadFailure` lookup in
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Taking over this one for batch terminal-preview-18b. I will merge current main into the existing branch, keep the original commits, and rebuild and verify the load-failure reporting without merging the PR.
Fresh review confirms both older findings are withdrawn and do not apply: the browser event subscription precedes server-created tabs, and loadErrorOf follows the existing Playwright Promise-to-Effect boundary. Resolving those two threads.
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- Around line 1356-1366: Update the main-frame request handling and loadErrorOf
so a new request clears or associates the DesktopBrowserChannel failure,
allowing a failure reported after that request to be used for the
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before CDP attachment by associating failures with the relevant navigation
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Clear or associate the DesktopBrowserChannel failure when a new main-frame request starts. Then permit loadErrorOf to use a failure reported after that request. Removing only navigationGeneration > 0 is unsafe because it restores stale pre-attachment errors.
Do not suppress the desktop fallback for every observed navigation.
page.on("request") increments navigationGeneration and clears tab.loadError. Electron can then forward the current did-fail-load through browserHost.loadFailed before Playwright delivers requestfailed, or when that callback is missed. Because loadErrorOf rejects the desktop fallback for every nonzero generation, status and snapshot omit loadError on the resulting chrome-error:// page.
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Update the main-frame request handling and loadErrorOf so a new request clears
or associates the DesktopBrowserChannel failure, allowing a failure reported
after that request to be used for the chrome-error:// page. Preserve protection
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Verified against the current code and Playwright 1.60: the proposed ordering does not produce the reported omission. loadErrorOf only reads a diagnostic once Playwright's URL is chrome-error://. For an observed navigation, Playwright processes Network.loadingFailed into requestfailed before the error-page frame navigation updates that URL, on the same CDP stream. The handler has already populated tab.loadError at that point. Superseded requests are intentionally ignored; aborted requests are also excluded by Electron's failure forwarding.
The desktop fallback covers failure before CDP attachment. Accepting its cached value after an observed navigation would restore the stale pre-attachment diagnostic covered by the existing desktop regression. The real-Chromium failure transcripts also confirm the server's own handler supplies diagnostics after the error page appears. No code change.
The missing loadError diagnostic reproduces on base and is present on head in both tools. Head reports the attempted certificate URL with -202 / ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID, reports connection refusal with -102, and clears the diagnostic while the next navigation is still loading.
Steps on both commits: open Browser, type the certificate-error URL, wait for failure, and read both tools. On desktop, read after the first failure, then repeat navigation after attachment. Next, navigate to a fixture with a held response and read while loading=true; release it and read again. Exercise connection refusal, a failing certificate iframe, and a held request superseded by a working page.
Environment: independently built Linux Electron apps under Xvfb, light theme; bundled web clients served by their real Node servers in Chromium, dark theme. Fresh isolated databases and synthetic data, identical drivers, 1440×900 viewport. Captures crop the Browser region to 1184×900. Boxed JSON contains actual MCP responses; in-flight stills crop that box only, with the full interaction in the recordings. Static captures matched two screenshots 500 ms apart. No guest-registration gating was used.
The earlier “Local servers” observation was investigated: it occurs intermittently on both commits despite native LoadFailed states, so it is not established as a head-only regression. Both rendered the error panel after attachment. Head also rendered the first-failure panel in another fresh run, shown below. This proves the tool diagnostic fix, not reliable elimination of the existing rendering race. The first desktop snapshot has no network entries on either commit while native events record the certificate failure; head still returns its diagnostic. The superseded request appears as net::ERR_ABORTED in network entries and does not produce loadError.
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Reliable first-tab desktop error-panel rendering is not established: the Local servers empty state occurred intermittently on both commits. Head diagnostics were correct even in that state; another fresh head run visibly rendered the error panel.
A failure before Electron registerWebview itself was not forced or chronologically established. The natural first failure preceded server CDP attachment. Real net::ERR_ABORTED requests were observed, but Electron did not emit a native did-fail-load event with numeric -3, so that exact native-event branch is not independently proven.
…iewport
Builds on the maintainer pipeline's merge 43f9865, which GitHub never
showed as the pull request's head. main has since gained pingdotgg#18588, which adds
a load error to preview status next to the line where this branch reads a
desktop tab's viewport, and a PreviewAutomationLoadError import next to this
branch's PreviewAutomationResizeResult import in ServerBrowser.test.ts. Both
conflicts keep both sides: status reads the viewport through
desktopStatusViewport and also reports loadError, and the test file imports
both types. The other main changes to ServerBrowser.ts (copy-key timing, tab
choice by visibility, reattach after a desktop window reload) do not touch
the viewport state this branch adds. ServerBrowser.test.ts passes in full
(62 tests).
The one typecheck error left, in apps/server/src/cloud/bootService.ts:414,
is on main at 0318ead too; this branch does not touch that file.
User story: When a maintainer opens this pull request, it merges cleanly with main, and status still reports a desktop tab's measured size alongside main's load errors.
…up text
- 31 new interface strings; Dev, UTC and a CSS value stay English.
- Settings → Providers: sign-in, managed installation, version advisory,
OpenCode restart and reset redemption messages the server writes now
read in Chinese (providerSetupMessages.ts).
- Usage reset credits moved into packages/shared upstream (pingdotgg#34106); their
text and Claude's per-kind options get Chinese in resetCreditText.ts.
- Upstream pingdotgg#26322 landed, so section 31 is dropped.
- pingdotgg#18442 window titles: an ephemeral thread stays unnamed.
- pingdotgg#34132 Find caches: purging an ephemeral thread invalidates them.
- pingdotgg#26763 Sqlite setup: secure_delete moved into makeLayerSetup.
- pingdotgg#18588 load failures report after the fork's background attach.
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Problem
After loading
https://self-signed.badssl.com/in the Browser panel,preview_statusandpreview_snapshotshow Chromium's error-page URL without a direct explanation of the failed navigation. Agents cannot reliably identify the failed URL and browser error from those results.Change
Status and snapshots include an optional
loadErrorcontaining the failed URL, browser error code, and description. Server-rendered tabs retain main-frame failures; desktop-rendered tabs forward failures that happen before server attachment. A new main-frame navigation clears the diagnostic, and replaced guests cannot overwrite the current tab's failure. Diagnostic URLs retain the existingdata:payload redaction.Preserves robertnisipeanu's implementation and the existing takeover work, with main merged into the branch.
Scope and approval
Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/18555
GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/18555
Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Issue #18555.
Verification
apps/server:vp test run src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts— 24 passed.apps/desktop:vp test run src/preview/Manager.test.ts— 56 passed.data:failure URLs. Both failed before redaction with an unredacted payload and pass after the fix.tsc-rs --noEmitin contracts, server, and desktop — no errors.ClipboardItemwarning inManager.test.ts.Evidence at 5dbd412d69, compared with 8acbefefc5:
-202 ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID-202 ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID-2 ERR_UNSAFE_PORTAll four rows and eight tool reads passed using the real ServerBrowser, broker, and Chromium 148.0.7778.96 on Linux at 1280×800 with isolated temporary state. Fixture infrastructure used
T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0.Evidence index, before transcript, after transcript, commands, harness.
Two fresh independent reviews of the complete final diff found no blocking bugs.
This changes tool output without a rendered UI change; the visual fixture matrix is empty.
cannot-verify desktop: live Electron and native mobile execution were not verified on this Linux VM. Desktop attachment and guest replacement are covered by focused tests.Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol through the Claude and Codex harnesses in T3 Code; reviewed with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol.
Fixes #18555