Working with cypress redirect

Question

Situation: I am writing test automation for a website. There comes a point where there is a link button on my website. Clicking this I am redirected to an external website. There I have to log in and as soon as I do that I am redirected to my original web-page which contains some 'connections' that I need.

Problem: As soon as cypress clicks on the redirection button it does into a blank page.

Ideal solution: I would want to automate the entire scenario. If not then at-least a work around.

Answer 1

As suggested in the Cypress Docs, you should really be using cy.request() to log in. You don't control a 3rd party site, and that makes your test very flakey. For example, a lot of login pages are constantly changing and are A/B tested for the purpose of preventing a bot from logging in, including testing bots. The data:, url is probably the result of a http redirect.

Thankfully, using cy.request() you can 'fake' logging in by making a request to the server through code (which doesn't change as much) and you will never have to leave your app to log in

Here's a recipe for Single Sign-On for example.

Hope that makes sense!