Provides Automated testing support for the registerProtocolHandler method, so that we could avoid the user prompt dialog to grant permission for the protocol handler registration. We would need to define a new 'PermissionName' that we can use as part of the 'PermissionDescriptor' argument for the SetPermission command provided by the WebDriver API.

Motivation

Currently there are only manual tests in the WPT repository to cover the registerProtocolHandler functionality. The main challenges to implement automated testing are: * UserActivation: The registerProtocolHandler method requires transient activation to consider the request; otherwise it'll be ignored. * Permission prompt dialog: Although the spec is quite vague on this regard, current implementations (Firefox and Chrome) requires the user to grant permissions for the handler registration. Using the test_driver.set_permission function we could make tests like this way: promise_setup(async () => { await test_driver.set_permission({name: 'protocol-handler'}, 'granted'); await test_driver.bless('handler registration'); // Provides UserActivation register(); });

Specification

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Final published standard: Recommendation, Living Standard, Candidate Recommendation, or similar final form

Status in Chromium

Blink>HTML>CustomHandlers


In development (tracking bug)

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Last updated on 2022-05-13