delay / timeout

[avarama]

Is there a way to slow down the underlying selenium interactions with the web app? I guess it is designed to wait for elements, but I'm suspecting purpleteam is timing out before my elements are drawn. Is there a configuration for the delay between steps, or any directive to specify specific waits? Thanks!

[binarymist]

Hi @avarama.

Did you try viewing the Selenium browser to see what's actually happening?

Yes there are waits.

Next step after just seeing what's happening with the Selenium browser would probably be to debug the Cucumber sub-process.

Les us know how that goes or if you need any more pointers?

[avarama]

I'm running the tool in an ubuntu server. I'd love to avoid having to install VSCode or any GUI stuff, as I am running with a low end AWS instance. Is there a global timeout or a way to instruct a wait in the Job file? Otherwise I'd need to install xorg or other X server in order to run VSCode in the remote server for debugging. Am I right?

[binarymist]

Hmm, that could be a problem. There's no global wait timeout for webdriver or waits specified in Job file. Any waits should be be in: https://github.com/purpleteam-labs/purpleteam-app-scanner/blob/main/src/clients/browser.js

[avarama]

Do you think I could stuff some clever JS on the presenter's beforeRequest hook to introduce a delay in the events loop? Here: https://github.com/purpleteam-labs/purpleteam/blob/main/src/presenter/apiDecoratingAdapter.js#L86

[binarymist]

That would not affect Server Sent Events. It would only affect standard http(s) requests. It also has nothing to do with the selenium interactions in the app-scanner.

It sounds like you're proposing to add the ability to supply configurable webdriver waits from the CLI? Which could be worth doing. It'd mean you'd need to have a development environment set-up anyway. If this is the case, then you'll be able to find out what the actual problem is... before proposing change.

Thoughts?

[avarama]

Makes total sense. I think I'll try to do a remote debugging session, with vscode in my local computer and purpleteam running in the remote server, which has no X server running.

[binarymist]

Hopefully you can view VNC into the remote selenium browser via SSH