RequestError: Error: Invalid URI "/runs"

[jennifer-shehane]

Current behavior:

There is a situation where someone can receive RequestError: Error: Invalid URI "/runs" on POST /runs

The request fails on 4 retries and then bails on recording and runs the tests without recording.

CYPRESS_ENV environment variable is not being set, which was our initial suspicion on the problem. #1621

Important bit of the logs from cypress run --record:

cypress:server:api request to url: POST /runs with params: {
  "body":{
    "ci":{
      "params":{
        "buildId":"123",
        "buildUrl":"https://buildurl",
        "buildNumber":"123"
      },
      "provider":"jenkins"
    },
    "specs":[..removed..],
    "commit":{
      "sha":"123",
      "branch":null,
      "authorName":"..removed..",
      "authorEmail":"..removed..",
      "message":"..removed..",
      "remoteOrigin":"https://remoteorigin",
      "defaultBranch":null
    },
    "group":null,
    "platform":{
      "osCpus":[..removed..],
      "osVersion":"Debian - 9.6",
      "browserName":"Electron",
      "browserVersion":"61.0.3163.100"
    },
    "parallel":null,
    "ciBuildId":null,
    "projectId":"123abc",
    "recordKey":"****",
    "specPattern":null
  },
  "headers":{
    "x-route-version":"4",
    "x-os-name":"linux",
    "x-cypress-version":"3.4.0"
  }
}
We encountered an unexpected error talking to our servers.

We will retry 3 more times in 30 seconds...

The server's response was:

RequestError: Error: Invalid URI "/runs"

It seems like some issue with routes.js and api.coffee not prepending the api url correctly for some reason, since /runs is not the full uri it should be.

Dug into the request library where they send the Invalid URI error here: Was digging into why request would throw an Invalid URI error here: https://github.com/request/request/blob/df346d8531ac4b8c360df301f228d5767d0e374e/request.js#L260

[jennifer-shehane]

Ran this locally on a project that does record properly to verify what the normal behavior is of this POST:

cypress:server:api request to url: POST https://api.cypress.io/runs with params:

[jennifer-shehane]

Feel like we should be catching null or malformed urls earlier, before we send out the request, maybe here:

https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/blob/develop/packages/server/lib/util/routes.js#L52

[jennifer-shehane]

If I run cypress run above with CYPRESS_ENV or CYPRESS_KONFIG_ENV set, then I get this exact error about invalid URI:

CYPRESS_ENV='https://foo' DEBUG=cypress:server:api cypress run --record --key ***
  cypress:server:api request to url: POST /runs with params: {..} and token: undefined +0ms
We encountered an unexpected error talking to our servers.

We will retry 3 more times in 30 seconds...

The server's response was:

RequestError: Error: Invalid URI "/runs"

[jennifer-shehane]

Turns out the CYPRESS_ENV was unexpectedly set in this case, so I will be closing this as a duplicate of #1621

If you are facing this issue

To check that you do not have an environment variable set with the name CYPRESS_ENV or CYPRESS_KONFIG_ENV on the system that cypress run is running - run this on that system.

env | grep -E "(CYPRESS_ENV|CYPRESS_KONFIG_ENV)"

This will print any environment variables set to either of these values on the system.

If this returns nothing, open a new issue.

If this returns a value, then you will need to unset these environment variables since these are reserved environment variables in Cypress.

Instructions on unsetting an env var on Linux/MacOS

Instructions on unsetting an env var on Windows