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Collector endpoints can be configured, with separate settings for the general API and remote reporter. Requests use the configured endpoint, falling back to the default when no override is set.
Bug Fixes
Invalid or insecure collector URLs are reported before setup proceeds. A warning appears when a remote reporter endpoint is configured without a general API endpoint. Crash reports and observability requests use the resolved collector endpoint.
The reporter that sends TestRunStarted/TestRunFinished runs on the BrowserStack machine from its own install of this package, which has the prod collector hard-coded. Against any other collector (staging environments) those events never arrive, so TestHub keeps nameless test cases and Accessibility collapses every test in a spec into one. Make API_URL overridable via BROWSERSTACK_TEST_OBSERVABILITY_API_URL and forward the launching cli's effective collector in system_env_vars, the same channel BS_TESTOPS_JWT already uses. Prod behaviour is unchanged.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On staging the collector the cli talks to is a private ingress the BrowserStack machine cannot reach, while the machine-facing public ingress is a different host. BROWSERSTACK_TEST_OBSERVABILITY_REMOTE_API_URL, when set, is what gets forwarded to the machine; otherwise the cli's own collector is forwarded as before. Read at call time so the tests need no module reloads.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… tests
Review feedback on #1210. Collector requests carry BS_TESTOPS_JWT, so an http:// override would send it in cleartext: reject such a value instead of falling back to the default collector. The assignment moves out of the try block in setSystemEnvs because that block swallows errors, which would have turned the rejection into a silent fallback. Tests now clear both URL variables before each case and restore the originals after.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Request urls are built as `${API_URL}/${path}`, so an override carrying a query or fragment would swallow the endpoint path and the upload would hit / instead. Parse with URL, require an https protocol and a hostname, reject search and hash, and trim a trailing slash so paths are not doubled.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A bare trailing ? or # leaves URL.search and URL.hash empty, so the value passed validation and the appended endpoint became a query or fragment; return origin + pathname with no trailing separator instead. The override can also carry credentials and callers log the error, so the messages no longer echo the value.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
setSystemEnvs tests only prove the url is handed to the remote machine. These load the helper with the override set and a stubbed axios, and assert nodeRequest builds its request url from it, with the default covered when nothing is set.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
constants.js is loaded through bin/helpers/utils.js, which every command loads, so validating at module load meant a bad BROWSERSTACK_TEST_OBSERVABILITY_API_URL crashed init, info, stop and the reporter on the machine at startup, outside any handler. API_URL becomes apiUrl(), read when a request is built; nodeRequest rejects rather than throws, since its executor is async and a throw there would never reach the returned promise. validateCollectorUrls() runs at runs.js:136, before TestHubHandler.launchBuild, so a bad value fails before a build exists. Comments in constants.js trimmed to the one that earns its place.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
remoteReporterApiUrl() short-circuits past apiUrl() when the remote override is set, so a malformed general override went unchecked until the first request. validateCollectorUrls() now calls both, with a test for the short-circuit case.
Jira: A11Y-13909
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… test real
Two findings from the SDK PR review:
Setting only BROWSERSTACK_TEST_OBSERVABILITY_REMOTE_API_URL leaves this process
on its built-in collector while the machine reports to another one, so the build
and its test events can land in two places with nothing detecting it. That split
is correct in the Jenkins flow, where the built-in default has been pointed at
the same environment, and wrong anywhere else - which the code cannot tell apart,
so this warns rather than rejects.
The third case in collectorUrl.js promised that loading the module never throws
on a bad value, but proxyquire's noPreserveCache clears only the proxied module
and its stubs, and the url is resolved in constants.js. That stayed a cache hit,
so hoisting the resolution to module scope would not have turned the test red -
verified by doing exactly that, which now fails. The loader drops constants.js
and the test asserts the load explicitly.
Env var names move into constants.js so the validator and the resolvers share
one spelling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…v key
Second round of SDK PR review findings.
The warning added in the last commit interpolated the raw env value, which
contradicts the rule the validator states a few lines up: a collector url can
carry credentials and callers log it. It now logs the normalized accessor,
whose origin has already dropped any userinfo. The validator also rejects a
url carrying a username or password outright, so the stripping is explicit
rather than a silent side effect of normalization.
setSystemEnvs still spelled the forwarded key as a literal while every other
reference used the imported constant, so a rename could have split the
producer from the consumer - the exact failure this PR exists to prevent.
Tests: the no-override path (what every build takes) now has a case, and so
does the userinfo rejection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
httpsOverride normalizes to origin + pathname, so the path survives and can
carry a token. The warning now names the host, which is the part that answers
the question it asks - whether the two collectors are the same environment -
and a test pins that a path in the value never reaches the log.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
Collector URLs can be configured through environment variables, validated, and normalized. Observability requests resolve the configured URL when they run. Run setup validates both URLs, warns when only the remote URL is set, and forwards the selected reporter URL.
Changes: Collector URL handling
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Summary
URL selection and requests bin/testObservability/helper/constants.js, bin/testObservability/helper/helper.js, bin/testObservability/crashReporter/index.js, test/unit/bin/testObservability/collectorUrl.js
URL helpers validate and normalize primary and remote collector URLs. Observability requests and crash reports use the selected URL. Unit tests cover overrides, defaults, and request-time validation errors.
Run setup and URL forwarding bin/commands/runs.js, bin/helpers/utils.js, test/unit/bin/helpers/utils.js
Run setup validates both URLs and warns when only the remote URL is set. System environment setup forwards the selected remote reporter URL. Tests cover forwarding, warnings, and URL validation.
browserstack/browserstack-cypress-cli#1210: Adds the same collector URL configuration and forwarding behavior extended here with validation, normalization, warnings, and request-time resolution.
Suggested reviewers:07souravkunda
Merge Risk: Low · up to 8513d
The URL changes are mergeable with awareness of two deferred privacy risks: a redirecting collector could send POST data over HTTP, and debug output could reveal a token placed in the collector URL path.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 8513d
Collector configuration now determines where authenticated build, test, and crash data is sent. Initial URL validation and early failure handling provide useful controls, but automatic forwarding also exposes token-bearing collector paths in debug output. Deployment identity and redirect behavior remain partly unverified.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Automatically forwarded collector URLs reach an unredacted environment debug dump. When a configured path contains a token, enabling CLI debug exposes that token to console-log readers despite the new host-only warning and value-free validation errors.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — Control of the launching process's collector environment settings authorizes destination changes for that run's authenticated telemetry, including the forwarded remote reporter. The observed scope is the affected process and remote reporting configuration, not a demonstrated service-wide or cross-tenant compromise.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A token-bearing collector path survives normalization, is automatically inserted into system_env_vars, and reaches the full environment debug message. A reader of that console output could obtain the token when DEBUG=true or --cli-debug is enabled. The base already dumped environment values, but did not automatically add this collector setting. No actual token disclosure or unauthorized log readership was demonstrated.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Validation constrains initial URL syntax and transport, not collector ownership: any HTTPS hostname is eligible. Errors omit the supplied value, and the remote-only warning exposes only the host. These controls do not redact the later environment dump or establish the final destination after redirects.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Reporting and stop operations re-enter the URL resolver rather than retaining a destination with the build identity. Stable environment configuration preserves consistent selection; mutation during a run could separate later reporting or cleanup from the creator's collector. No runtime mutation path was demonstrated, so this remains a lifecycle assumption rather than an active concern.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Keep the full collector URL in execution configuration, but redact it from environment debug output or log only its origin. Apply the same policy consistently to warnings and request-error diagnostics.
proposed — Define an explicit redirect policy for authenticated collector requests, rejecting HTTPS downgrades and unexpected authority changes. This would extend initial URL validation to subsequent destinations; current evidence does not establish that a deployed collector redirects unsafely.
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A rabbit checks each URL string, HTTPS makes the endpoints ring. A host is named when routes diverge, Requests resolve the path they use. The reporter gets its chosen route, And tests confirm each setting’s truth.
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Review comments at @bin/helpers/utils.js:
- Line 631: Redact the collector URL only in the debug representation: update
the `logger.debug` call that logs `bsConfig.run_settings.system_env_vars` to
replace the value for `API_URL_ENV` with a redacted placeholder, while leaving
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- Line 142: Configure both Axios POST requests—the request in nodeRequest and
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redirect limit to zero, preventing POST bodies from being resent to an HTTP
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