[🐛 Bug]: Could not get absolute path of downloaded file

[nilic10]

What happened?

Hi all,
I'm using docker selenium full grid (router, distributor, sessions, session-queue, events-bus are on the same VM, and docker-nodes are on different VM-s).
In my tests, I need to download files, and also in some cases, I need to open downloaded files(mostly HTML) in the same session on container browser (wit driver.get($downloded_file_path)), but I'm not able to get path of downloaded file, because it's downloaded in /tmp folder in some generic folder (/tmp/uuid7913403656254552707a679ff8f-89ad-45c8-827b-16e28cede7ba/download4164586578271991079).

Do you have some workaround for getting path of downloaded file? Maybe to add one more parameter 'path' in response of /session/sessionId/se/files endpoint ?

I have this SE_OPTS in my docker node containers:
- SE_OPTS=--enable-managed-downloads true
and also downloadsEnabled capability is set on true on WebDriver:
- setCapability("se:downloadsEnabled", true);

Command used to start Selenium Grid with Docker (or Kubernetes)

router, distributor, sessions, session-queue, events-bus are started on the same VM using single docker compose file:
docker compose -f docker-compose-full-grid.yml up -d

docker-nodes are run on different VM-s using docker compose:
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Relevant log output

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Operating System

Ubuntu

Docker Selenium version (image tag)

4.34.0

Selenium Grid chart version (chart version)

No response

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[VietND96]

From client code, you can get the file from remote web driver - https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/drivers/remote_webdriver/#download-a-file
However, it should be in the session runtime. Once session is closed, downloaded files tmp also get cleaned up

[nilic10]

yes, but this download method will download file from container to local MVN machine, right ?
I need following:

• open browser on docker container
• download file from browser to container /tmp
• open downloaded file directly from /tmp in the same browser, in the same container, using driver.get("$downloaded_file_path")

[VietND96]

In this case, is it suitable to use a local download? Don't set setCapability("se:downloadsEnabled", true); in code, let it download to default /home/seluser/Downloads in the container, and you call driver.get with that local path