get error for test environment CypressError: cy.request() requires a url. You did not provide a url.

[gzhhong]

Hello all,

Here is my environment:

Cypress package version: 9.7.0
Cypress binary version: 9.7.0
Electron version: 18.0.4
Bundled Node version: 16.13.2
OS: Mac
package mgn: npm

Here is the package.json:

  "scripts": {
    "dev": "next dev -p 8080",
    "test": "next dev -p 8080 & cypress run --env configFile=dev",
    "test-prep": "cypress run --env configFile=test",
    "start": "next start -p 8080",
    "build": "next build",
  },

Here is my source code, sitemap.spec.js

describe("Sitemap Fast Check", () => {
    it("should succesfully load each url in the sitemap", () => {
      cy.request({
        url: Cypress.config('baseUrl'),
        headers: {
          "user-agent":
            "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/97.0.4692.99 Safari/537.36",
        },
      })
        .as("sitemap")
        .then((response) => {
          const urls = Cypress.$(response.body)
            .find("loc")
            .toArray()
            .map((el) => el.innerText);
  
          urls.forEach((url) => {
            cy.request({
              url: url,
              headers: {
                "Content-Type": "text/html",
                accept: "*/*",
                "user-agent":
                  "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36",
              },
            }).then((resp) => {
              expect(resp.status).to.eq(200);
            });
          });
        });
    });
  });

Here is my config.cypress.dev.json

{
    "baseUrl": "http://localhost:8080/fr-FR/sitemap.xml",
    "env": {
      "environment": "dev"
    },
    "execTimeout": 18000,
    "defaultCommandTimeout": 300000,
    "requestTimeout": 10000,
    "pageLoadTimeout": 30000,
    "responseTimeout": 10000,
    "viewportWidth": 1200,
    "viewportHeight": 1200,
    "videoUploadOnPasses": false,
    "retries": {
      "runMode": 1,
      "openMode": 2
    }
  }

Here is the config/cypress.test.json

{
    "baseUrl": "https://iotjourney-front-pre-prod.apps.fr01.paas.tech.orange/fr-FR/sitemap.xml",
    "env": {
      "environment": "test"
    },
    "execTimeout": 300000,
    "defaultCommandTimeout": 60000,
    "requestTimeout": 20000,
    "pageLoadTimeout": 60000,
    "responseTimeout": 20000,
    "viewportWidth": 1200,
    "viewportHeight": 1200,
    "videoUploadOnPasses": true,
    "retries": {
      "runMode": 2,
      "openMode": 1
    }
  }

Here is plugins/index.js

const fs = require("fs-extra");
const path = require("path");

const fetchConfigurationByFile = file => {
  const pathOfConfigurationFile = `config/cypress.${file}.json`;

  return (
    file && fs.readJson(path.join(__dirname, "../", pathOfConfigurationFile))
  );
};

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  const environment = config.env.configFile || "dev";
  const configurationForEnvironment = fetchConfigurationByFile(environment);
  return configurationForEnvironment || config;
};

When I run

npm run test

I can see the local web service is started and all test run and passed, but when I run the command:

npm run test-prep

I always get error msg like:

> iot-journey-front-v2@0.1.0 test-prep /Users/zhihong/workspace/iot-journey/iot-journey-front
> cypress run --env configFile=test

objc[26889]: Class WebSwapCGLLayer is implemented in both /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/libANGLE-shared.dylib (0x7ffb44efc948) and /Users/zhihong/Library/Caches/Cypress/9.7.0/Cypress.app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Libraries/libGLESv2.dylib (0x107fec9c8). One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.

====================================================================================================

  (Run Starting)

  ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
  │ Cypress:        9.7.0                                                                          │
  │ Browser:        Electron 100 (headless)                                                        │
  │ Node Version:   v14.17.1 (/usr/local/bin/node)                                                 │
  │ Specs:          1 found (iotjourney/sitemap.spec.js)                                           │
  └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘


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  Running:  iotjourney/sitemap.spec.js                                                      (1 of 1)
Browserslist: caniuse-lite is outdated. Please run:
npx browserslist@latest --update-db

Why you should do it regularly:
https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist#browsers-data-updating


  Sitemap Fast Check
    (Attempt 1 of 3) should succesfully load each url in the sitemap
    (Attempt 2 of 3) should succesfully load each url in the sitemap
    1) should succesfully load each url in the sitemap


  0 passing (5s)
  1 failing

  1) Sitemap Fast Check
       should succesfully load each url in the sitemap:
     CypressError: `cy.request()` requires a `url`. You did not provide a `url`.

[daria-graf]

Hello everyone, is it any update on this problem?
I have the same problem with "cypressVersion": "12.17.4".
We run a cy.request in a loop 6 times in our CI/CD. Sometimes the 6.th request throws the error "CypressError: cy.request() requires an url". It happens very seldom (the test is executed 20-30 times per day, it failes only one time per day), but we do not understand why. Because the first five request have no problem and the URL doesn't change dynamicaly. It stays the same all the time.

Update 02.05.2024:
We found out that it was an error on our side. We called the URL for the 6th cy.request() from Cypress.env("URL") and forgot to put the "CYPRESS_" prefix to the environment name, so it will be recognizes by Cypress: "CYPESS_URL", see https://docs.cypress.io/guides/guides/environment-variables#Option-3-CYPRESS_