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Unproven: a fresh integrated desktop app run on head 839c2ca23cdf339cbe264331d52efde61396e2fa. The built-in Browser failed to open because the host blocks its sandbox through AppArmor. Earlier screenshots below are labeled with their tested commit.

Refs #22156

#22156 stopped data: URLs from leaking a file's contents through downloads, navigation failures, network entries, snapshot link targets, and console text. One thing was left: the tab's own page URL. It still went out raw in four places:

  • the Success load report (reportLoaded), which goes to preview clients and fills the URL bar
  • preview_status.url
  • preview_status.tabs[].url
  • preview_snapshot's url (location.href)

A desktop tab can land on a data: page from the page itself: window.open("data:…") goes through the desktop's window-open handler, which loads non-http(s) URLs in the same tab with wc.loadURL (apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts). The agent then gets the page's contents back as its URL. Web and server-rendered tabs don't hit this, because Chromium blocks a page from opening or navigating to data: there.

This PR runs all four through the same withoutDataPayload helper, so a data: page shows as data:text/html,…. It also removes the comment #22156 put on the http(s) allowlist warning that page URLs were unredacted, since they no longer are.

Trade-off: when a desktop-rendered tab's webview crashes, it remounts at the last Success URL. A tab that crashed on a data: page would now come back as data:text/html,… instead of its content. #22156 made the same trade for LoadFailed URLs; keeping a private real URL just for this would need a new channel.

Earlier app evidence

The screenshots below are from the earlier Linux desktop dev run on corex at PR head ebfc67f31d7937e424195e6ff419a0428509076e, before the update from main. They have not been refreshed for the current head. The Browser panel opens a local page whose button calls window.open("data:text/html,<h1>Invoice</h1><p>API_KEY=sk-live-SECRET-4242</p>"). Then an agent (GPT-6-Astra) is asked to call preview_status and preview_snapshot and paste the URL fields back. Same steps on main and on this branch.

Before (main): the URL bar, preview_status url and tabs[].url all carry the key. The thread's provider event log has it 3 times.

Before: preview_status returns the data: URL with the key

After: both come back as data:text/html,…, the URL bar shows data:text/html,…, and the event log has no copy of the key from status.

After: preview_status returns data:text/html,…

preview_snapshot's url, before and after:

Before: preview_snapshot url carries the key

After: preview_snapshot url is data:text/html,…

The snapshot's visibleText still shows the page's text, as it does for any page the agent reads. Only the URL stopped echoing it.

Verification on current main and PR head

Tested on corex, Linux, with Node and the repository dependencies installed by vp i.

  • Main 056b4457cc687b053e15f1fc89afb900078a127e, with the PR's two regression test files copied into an isolated checkout and production code unchanged: 44 tests passed and the two new regressions failed. The Success report returned data:text/html,<p>SECRET-KEY</p> and the snapshot URL returned data:text/html,<title>Key</title>PAYLOAD.
  • PR head 839c2ca23cdf339cbe264331d52efde61396e2fa, after merging main: all 46 tests passed. Command: vp test run apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts.
  • The status regression checks the Success report, the data tab's own status URL, and its URL as listed in a different tab's status. It waits for the navigation event. Temporarily removing only the sibling URL redaction made that assertion fail with the raw dummy key.
  • The snapshot regression runs in real headless Chromium. The manager/status regression uses the existing fake browser harness.
  • vp exec tsc --noEmit -p apps/server/tsconfig.json exited 0. Targeted vp lint passed for all five changed files; formatting and git diff --check passed.

The original download URL and file-permission fix is already on main through #22156, commit b7b53d404e72df21854bf7861dfc2f3106e3294d. This PR is still needed for the four page URL paths above.

Implemented and updated with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code. Verified and reviewed with GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex through T3 Code.

pingdotgg#22156 redacted data: URLs in downloads, navigation failures, network
entries, snapshots, and console text, but the tab's own page URL still
went out raw in the Success report, preview_status.url, and
preview_status.tabs[].url. It was safe only because nothing can put a
tab's top frame on a data: page today. Redact those three too, so the
report path holds even if the http(s) allowlist or Chromium's top-frame
block changes, and drop the allowlist comment that warned about this.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This focused fix redacts data URL contents from preview status and snapshot outputs, with targeted regression coverage. Because it changes a sensitive-data exposure boundary in production browser-preview code, human review is warranted.

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preview_snapshot returned location.href as-is, so a tab on a data: page
still handed the agent the page's contents through the snapshot URL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
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Navigation reports, tab status responses, and page snapshots now remove payloads from data: URLs. Tests verify that reported URLs omit embedded content while preserving the media type.

Changes: Data URL Redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sanitize reported URLs
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts, packages/shared/src/preview.ts
Successful navigation reports and active and sibling tab status responses use payload-free URLs. A test verifies that serialized output excludes embedded content. The URL validation code is unchanged.
Sanitize page snapshots
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts
Page snapshots sanitize page.url with withoutDataPayload. The test verifies that the media type remains and the payload is replaced with an ellipsis.

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Change: Bug fix

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Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 839c2

The URL redaction change is mergeable after normal checks; no unresolved issue is established.

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: apps/server, packages/shared

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  • observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
  • observed — packages/shared (library) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts: Added coverage for data: page navigation, verifying successful navigation status and URL reporting use data:text/html,… while serialized event/status data excludes the embedded SECRET-KEY.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts: Successful navigation reports now sanitize URLs with withoutDataPayload before truncating them to 2048 characters.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts: The active tab status now reports a payload-free URL.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts: URLs for tabs listed in status responses are now sanitized with withoutDataPayload; about:blank remains reported as null.
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@shivamhwp shivamhwp changed the title fix(server): preview status never echoes a data: page's contents fix(server): preview status and snapshot never echo a data: page's contents Oct 20, 2026

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apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts: 1

1706-1734: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover a distinct data: sibling tab.

The current test uses one tab, so it only exercises the active-tab URL branch. A regression limited to the status.tabs sibling mapping can therefore pass while exposing the sibling page content. Add a popup sibling with a data: URL and assert its status.tabs entry.

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       const { broker, tabId } = yield* ready;
       const manager = yield* Manager.PreviewManager;
       const events = yield* manager.subscribeEvents;
+      const sibling = makeContext();
+      yield* Effect.promise(() =>
+        sibling.page.goto("data:text/html,<p>SIBLING-SECRET</p>"),
+      );
+      contexts[0]!.page.emit("popup", sibling.page);
+      let sessions = (yield* manager.list({ threadId: scope.thread.threadId })).sessions;
+      while (sessions.length < 2) {
+        yield* Effect.sleep("5 millis");
+        sessions = (yield* manager.list({ threadId: scope.thread.threadId })).sessions;
+      }
+      const siblingTab = sessions.find((session) => session.tabId !== tabId)!;
       yield* Effect.promise(() => contexts[0]!.page.goto("data:text/html,<p>SECRET-KEY</p>"));
       let event = yield* PubSub.take(events);
@@
       expect(event.snapshot.navStatus).toMatchObject({ url: "data:text/html,…" });
       expect(status.url).toBe("data:text/html,…");
       expect(status.tabs?.find((entry) => entry.tabId === tabId)?.url).toBe("data:text/html,…");
-      expect(JSON.stringify([event, status])).not.toContain("SECRET-KEY");
+      expect(status.tabs?.find((entry) => entry.tabId === siblingTab.tabId)?.url).toBe(
+        "data:text/html,…",
+      );
+      expect(JSON.stringify([event, status])).not.toContain("SECRET-KEY");
+      expect(JSON.stringify([event, status])).not.toContain("SIBLING-SECRET");
     }),
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts around lines
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Extend the test around the existing ready, manager, and status flow to create
and register a popup sibling tab with a data: URL, wait until it appears in
manager.list sessions, and identify its tab ID separately from tabId. Assert
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status flow to create and register a popup sibling tab with a data: URL, wait
until it appears in manager.list sessions, and identify its tab ID separately
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@pingdotgg pingdotgg deleted a comment from shivamsdot Oct 21, 2026
Resolves conflicts in ServerBrowserPage.ts (keeps the snapshot URL redaction
next to main's shortened comment) and ServerBrowserPage.test.ts (keeps the
data: snapshot URL test, drops the console test main removed).

The status regression test now reads a sibling tab's status, so the
tabs[] mapping for another tab showing a data: page is covered.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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