Protractor error message "unsupported command-line flag" in Chrome?

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mikeybaby173 picture mikeybaby173 · May 21, 2014 · Viewed 38.4k times · Source

I'm a new user to Protractor, and I encountered this error running my tests using Chrome (error displays beneath the address bar in the launched browser):

You are using an unsupported command-line flag --ignore-certificate-errors. Stability and security will suffer.

Here is my conf.js for Protractor:

exports.config = {

seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
capabilities: {
    'browserName': 'chrome'  
},

...

Also, I am using a Mac with the latest available Chromedriver and Selenium standalone server (2.41.0). Now, I haven't set this flag anywhere, and I don't recall it always displaying so I'm not sure what caused this problem.

Any ideas on how to resolve this issue?

Answer

scheffield picture scheffield · Jun 3, 2014

If you use Protractor, this is probably the configuration you're looking for:

capabilities : {
    browserName : 'chrome',
    'chromeOptions': {
        args: ['--test-type']
    }
},

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