Issues with Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User - proxy

I have the following code:
Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User("network.proxy.type") = 1
Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User("network.proxy.share_proxy_settings") = True
Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User("network.proxy.https") = "000.000.000.000"
Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User("network.proxy.https_port") = 80
Skybound.Gecko.GeckoPreferences.User("network.proxy.https_remote_dns") = True
In which 000.000.000.000 is a proxy.
The problem is sometimes it works and most of the time is not affected.
How can I see if the proxy IP is affected to the network.proxy.https? Also, how can I force the change of the proxy and the port?
One other problem:
Sometimes where I am using geckowebbrowser it sends a message box with choice answer, like:
Would you really like to quit this page?
How can I escape this message box and others?

I'm fairly new to GeckoFX, but I know that in the latest version (31.0), Skybound doesn't exist anymore. You may have some luck by upgrading to the latest version. Here is the link to the repo: https://bitbucket.org/geckofx

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Not possible to test WebAssembly page locally with Firefox - SharedArrayBuffer not defined

I am using a WebAssembly based software that uses multi-threading that requires SharedArrayBuffer. It runs fine both in Chromium local/deployed, and Firefox 89 deployed, but since the best performance is under Firefox, I want to test and tune it on my machine, so I run python -m SimpleHTTPServer. In this situation, when I open 127.0.0.1:8000 or 0.0.0.0:8000 in Firefox, SharedArrayBuffer is undefined. Perhaps this is a security setting, but when using localhost, I'm really not interested in Firefox's interpretation of the situation -- this should just run. How can I make it work? Do I need a different web server, different settings?
As you guessed correctly, it has to do with security restrictions. There have been changes in regards to the use of SharedArrayBuffer that have already been implemented in Firefox 79 and will land in Chrome shortly as well (starting with Chrome 92). (Time of writing this: July 13, 2021.)
The main purpose is to restrict the use of SharedArrayBuffers in postMessage. Any such attempt will throw an error unless certain restrictive COOP/COEP headers are set to prevent cross-origin attacks:
Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-corp
Unfortunately, without these headers, there is also no global SharedArrayBuffer constructor. Apparently, this restriction may be lifted in the future. The objects themselves still work though (only passing them through postMessage would throw), but you need a different way to instantiate them. You can use WebAssembly.Memory instead:
const memory = new WebAssembly.Memory({ initial: 10, maximum: 100, shared: true })
// memory.buffer is instanceof SharedMemoryBuffer
You could now go one step further and recover the constructor from that. Therefore, with the following code as "shim", your existing code should work as long as it doesn't try to pass the buffer through postMessage:
if (typeof SharedArrayBuffer === 'undefined') {
const dummyMemory = new WebAssembly.Memory({ initial: 0, maximum: 0, shared: true })
globalThis.SharedArrayBuffer = dummyMemory.buffer.constructor
}
// Now, `new SharedArrayBuffer(1024)` works again
Further reading:
Article about this change on MDN
Google blog post about the upcoming change
WebAssembly.Memory documentation
As #CherryDT pointed out in the comment, the problem is missing headers for the local server. Searching the net, there is a blog that walks through the process of developing WebAssembly in Firefox with a python web server. Instead of python -m SimpleHTTPServer, one has to add a file ./wasm-server.py with this contents (for Python 2):
# Python 2
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
class WasmHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def end_headers(self):
self.send_header("Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy", "same-origin")
self.send_header("Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy", "require-corp")
SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.end_headers(self)
# Python 3.7.5 adds in the WebAssembly Media Type. Version 2.x doesn't
# have this so add it in.
WasmHandler.extensions_map['.wasm'] = 'application/wasm'
if __name__ == '__main__':
PORT = 8080
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), WasmHandler)
print("Listening on port {}. Press Ctrl+C to stop.".format(PORT))
httpd.serve_forever()
then it is possible to test the application at 127.0.0.1:8080

Haskell stack: How can I fix this connection timeout?

I have some downtime at work and would like to spend it getting familiar with Haskell.
I am trying a simple HellowWorld.fs, which works fine at home, but doesn't at work.
I have a 'developer' account with the ability to install software, and generally IT can be convinced to unblock various network restrictions, but I have to be able to describe exactly what needs to be unblocked.
Here is what I am seeing:
C:\WorkSpace>stack HelloWorld.hs
Downloading lts-13.7 build plan ...
RedownloadHttpError (HttpExceptionRequest Request {
host = "raw.githubusercontent.com"
port = 443
secure = True
requestHeaders = [("User-Agent","The Haskell Stack")]
path = "/fpco/lts-haskell/master//lts-13.7.yaml"
queryString = ""
method = "GET"
proxy = Nothing
rawBody = False
redirectCount = 10
responseTimeout = ResponseTimeoutDefault
requestVersion = HTTP/1.1
}
ConnectionTimeout)
Access violation in generated code when reading 00007ffc39deffff
This is from Windows 10 command prompt.
I can navigate just fine to raw.githubusercontent.com/fpco/lts-haskell/master//lts-13.7.yaml from my browser. Is that even where the problem is in this case? How can I diagnose what the problem is and then communicate the solution to IT? Even better, how can I solve it without getting IT involved?

Uncaught Error: Returned values aren't valid, did it run Out of Gas?

I'm listening to events of my deployed contract. Whenever a transaction gets completed and event is fired receiving the response causes following error:
Uncaught Error: Returned values aren't valid, did it run Out of Gas?
at ABICoder.push../node_modules/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js.ABICoder.decodeParameters
(index.js:227)
at ABICoder.push../node_modules/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js.ABICoder.decodeLog
(index.js:277)
Web3 version: 1.0.0-beta36
Metamask version: 4.16.0
How to fix it?
Try the command truffle migrate --reset so that all the previous values are reset to their original value
Throws the same error when inside a transaction it generates different events with the same name and the same arguments. In my case, this was the Transfer event from ERC721 and ERC20. Renaming one of them solves this problem, but of course this isn't the right way.
This is a bug in web3js, discussed here.
And the following change fixes it (source):
patch-package
--- a/node_modules/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js
+++ b/node_modules/web3-eth-abi/src/index.js
## -280,7 +280,7 ## ABICoder.prototype.decodeLog = function (inputs, data, topics) {
var nonIndexedData = data;
- var notIndexedParams = (nonIndexedData) ? this.decodeParameters(notIndexedInputs, nonIndexedData) : [];
+ var notIndexedParams = (nonIndexedData && nonIndexedData !== '0x') ? this.decodeParameters(notIndexedInputs, nonIndexedData) : [];
var returnValue = new Result();
returnValue.__length__ = 0;
Edit: Also downgrading to web3-1.0.0.beta33 also fixes this issue too.
Before even checking your ABI or redeploying, check to make sure Metamask is connected to whichever network your contract is actually deployed too. I stepped away and while i was afk Metamask logged out, I guess I wasn't watching closely and I was connected to Ropsten when I working on localhost. Simple mistake, wasted an hour or so trying to figure it out. Hope this helps someone else out!
This happened to me on my react app.
I deployed to contract to Ropsten network, but metamask was using the Rinkeby aaccount. So make sure whichever network you deployed, metamask should be using account from that network.
The solution for me was changing of provider. With Infura the error is gone, but with Alchemy is still happening.
Please check your Metamask Login, This issue is generally populated when you are either log out of the Metamask or worse case you have 0 ether left at your account.
This can also happen when the MNEMONIC value from Ganache is different from the one you have in your truffle.js or truffle-config.js file.

Xamarin.Auth - Google authentication won't open in browser

I'm trying to do authentication on my Android application using Xamarin.Auth. Some time ago, Google made the policy that you cannot do this in an embedded web view (for totally valid reasons).
I'm trying to open the account authentication page in a browser, but keep getting the embedded web view. I understand that isUsingNativeUI needs to be true in the following code:
_auth = new OAuth2Authenticator(clientId, string.Empty, scope,
new Uri(Constant.AuthorizeUrl),
new Uri(redirectUrl),
new Uri(Constant.AccessTokenUrl),
null,
isUsingNativeUI = true);
At every point in my application, this always equals true.
Elsewhere, I have code that redirects to what should be a browser:
var authenticator = Auth.GetAuthenticator();
Intent intent = authenticator.GetUI(this);
this.StartActivity(intent);
Regardless, I keep getting a dreaded 403 disallowed_useragent error whenever I try to run the project. Is there another element to this that I'm missing?
To my knowledge, setting auth.IsUsingNativeUI = true in the constructor should dictate that it must open in a browser. I've been following this example to try and debug with no success. I even pulled the guy's repo down to my machine and ran it - the Intent variable at the moment of redirection is almost identical.
Could there be something stupid that I'm missing? What else might be going wrong?
I realize this is an old question, but I had the same issue.
You have to install version 1.5.0.3 of the Xamarin.Auth Nuget package. The newest one (version 1.7.0 right now) doesn't work. You'll have to also install the PCLCrypto nuget package in order to get that version to work.

How to Stop the page loading in firefox programmatically?

I am running several tests with WebDriver and Firefox.
I'm running into a problem with the following command:
WebDriver.get(www.google.com);
With this command, WebDriver blocks till the onload event is fired. While this can normally takes seconds, it can take hours on websites which never finish loading.
What I'd like to do is stop loading the page after a certain timeout, somehow simulating Firefox's stop button.
I first tried execute the following JS code every time that I tried loading a page:
var loadTimeout=setTimeout(\"window.stop();\", 10000);
Unfortunately this doesn't work, probably because :
Because of the order in which scripts are loaded, the stop() method cannot stop the document in which it is contained from loading 1
UPDATE 1: I tried to use SquidProxy in order to add connect and request timeouts, but the problem persisted.
One weird thing that I found today is that one web site that never stopped loading on my machine (FF3.6 - 4.0 and Mac Os 10.6.7) loaded normally on other browsers and/or computers.
UPDATE 2: The problem apparently can be solved by telling Firefox not to load images. hopefully, everything will work after that...
I wish WebDriver had a better Chrome driver in order to use it. Firefox is disappointing me every day!
UPDATE 3: Selenium 2.9 added a new feature to handle cases where the driver appears to hang. This can be used with FirefoxProfile as follows:
FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new ProfilesIni().getProfile("web");
firefoxProfile.setPreference("webdriver.load.strategy", "fast");
I'll post whether this works after I try it.
UPDATE 4: at the end none of the above methods worked. I end up "killing" the threads that are taking to long to finish. I am planing to try Ghostdriver which is a Remote WebDriver that uses PhantomJS as back-end. PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable, so i expect not to have the problems of a real browser such as firefox. For people that are not obligate to use firefox(crawling purposes) i will update with the results
UPDATE 5: Time for an update. Using for 5 months the ghostdriver 1.1 instead FirefoxDriver i can say that i am really happy with his performance and stability. I got some cases where we have not the appropriate behaviour but looks like in general ghostdriver is stable enough. So if you need, like me, a browser for crawling/web scraping purposes i recomend you use ghostdriver instead firefox and xvfb which will give you several headaches...
I was able to get around this doing a few things.
First, set a timeout for the webdriver. E.g.,
WebDriver wd;
... initialize wd ...
wd.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(5000, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
Second, when doing your get, wrap it around a TimeoutException. (I added a UnhandledAlertException catch there just for good measure.) E.g.,
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
try {
wd.get(url);
break;
} catch (org.openqa.selenium.TimeoutException te) {
((JavascriptExecutor)wd).executeScript("window.stop();");
} catch (UnhandledAlertException uae) {
Alert alert = wd.switchTo().alert();
alert.accept();
}
}
This basically tries to load the page, but if it times out, it forces the page to stop loading via javascript, then tries to get the page again. It might not help in your case, but it definitely helped in mine, particularly when doing a webdriver's getCurrentUrl() command, which can also take too long, have an alert, and require the page to stop loading before you get the url.
I've run into the same problem, and there's no general solution it seems. There is, however, a bug about it in their bug tracking system which you could 'star' to vote for it.
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=687
One of the comments on that bug has a workaround which may work for you - Basically, it creates a separate thread which waits for the required time, and then tries to simulate pressing escape in the browser, but that requires the browser window to be frontmost, which may be a problem.
http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=687#c4
My solution is to use this class:
WebDriverBackedSelenium;
//When creating a new browser:
WebDriver driver = _initBrowser(); //Just returns firefox WebDriver
WebDriverBackedSelenium backedSelenuium =
new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver,"about:blank");
//This code has to be put where a TimeOut is detected
//I use ExecutorService and Future<?> Object
void onTimeOut()
{
backedSelenuium.runScript("window.stop();");
}
It was a really tedious issue to solve. However, I am wondering why people are complicating it. I just did the following and the problem got resolved (perhaps got supported recently):
driver= webdriver.Firefox()
driver.set_page_load_timeout(5)
driver.get('somewebpage')
It worked for me using Firefox driver (and Chrome driver as well).
One weird thing that i found today is that one web site that never stop loading on my machine (FF3.6 - 4.0 and Mac Os 10.6.7), is stop loading NORMALy in Chrome in my machine and also in another Mac Os and Windows machines of some colleague of mine!
I think the problem is closely related to Firefox bugs. See this blog post for details. Maybe upgrade of FireFox to the latest version will solve your problem. Anyway I wish to see Selenium update that simulates the "stop" button...
Basically I set the browser timeout lower than my selenium hub, and then catch the error. And then stop the browser from loading, then continue the test.
webdriver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(55000);
function handleError(err){
console.log(err.stack);
};
return webdriver.get(url).then(null,handleError).then(function () {
return webdriver.executeScript("return window.stop()");
});
Well , the following concept worked with me on Chrome , try the same:
1) Navigate to "about:blank"
2) get element "body"
3) on the elemënt , just Send Keys Ësc
Just in case someone else might be stuck with the same forever loading annoyance, you can use simple add-ons such as Killspinners for Firefox to do the job effortlessly.
Edit : This solution doesn't work if javascript is the problem. Then you could go for a Greasemonkey script such as :
// ==UserScript==
// #name auto kill
// #namespace default
// #description auto kill
// #include *
// #version 1
// #grant none
// ==/UserScript==
function sleep1() {
window.stop();
setTimeout(sleep1, 1500);
}
setTimeout(sleep1, 5000);

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