fix(video-call): open conference http(s) popups as sandboxed child windows (SUP-1108) - #3485
fix(video-call): open conference http(s) popups as sandboxed child windows (SUP-1108)#3485jeanfbrito wants to merge 4 commits into
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…ndows Since 4.16.0 (#3370) the conference webview's window-open handler denied every http(s) popup and sent it to the system browser. Identity-provider SSO flows such as Pexip's log in through a popup and hand the result back via window.opener, so login never completed inside the video call window. The conference webview now has its own policy: plain http(s) popups open as sandboxed Electron child windows (nodeIntegration off, contextIsolation on, sandbox on, no preload, shown on ready-to-show), tab dispositions still go to the system browser, about:/blob: stay allowed, and javascript:/data:/ file: stay denied. Popups re-apply the same policy to their own popups and navigations. The host page handler is unchanged. Fixes SUP-1108.
WalkthroughThe conference webview now opens HTTP(S) popups in sandboxed Electron child windows for SSO flows. Tab-target links still open externally. Popup and navigation policies apply recursively, including server-side redirects. Host-window behavior remains unchanged. ChangesConference popup management
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The new popup flow can lose conference-session cookies, causing Pexip SSO login to fail for affected users. Session preservation should be fixed and covered before merge. Suggested labels: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ConferenceWebview
participant PopupPolicy
participant ChildWindow
participant SystemBrowser
ConferenceWebview->>PopupPolicy: Handle window-open request
alt HTTP(S) new-window
PopupPolicy->>ChildWindow: Create sandboxed child window
ConferenceWebview->>ChildWindow: Apply popup and navigation handlers
ChildWindow-->>ConferenceWebview: ready-to-show
ConferenceWebview->>ChildWindow: Show child window
else Tab-target link or blocked redirect
PopupPolicy->>SystemBrowser: Open external URL
end
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In `@src/videoCallWindow/ipc.ts`:
- Line 502: Update the popup protocol-policy setup around
handleConferenceWillNavigate to register it for cancellable will-redirect events
on both guest and child windows, in addition to will-navigate. Add coverage for
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…ects will-navigate only covers page-initiated navigations. A 302 from an http(s) popup to a custom scheme fires will-redirect instead, so register the same protocol check for will-redirect on the conference webview and on popup child windows.
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In `@docs/video-call-window-management.md`:
- Around line 382-383: Update the sandbox navigation documentation to reflect
that handleConferenceWillNavigate permits file: and data: schemes for existing
child windows, or modify that handler and its tests to block them if navigation
must remain fully restricted.
- Line 380: Update the did-create-window handling so each newly created child
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… allowlist The did-create-window listener only wired the popup policy onto the immediate child. Extract it into attachConferencePopupPolicy, which also registers itself on each child's did-create-window so every descendant popup gets the window-open handler and navigation guards. State the exact scheme allowlist in the popup policy doc instead of claiming nested navigation cannot escape.
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360-365: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the source session for HTTP(S) conference popups.
The video-call renderer uses
ActiveCall.partitionfor the conference webview. Electron 42.5 does not inherit the opener session whenopenGuestWindowcreates a child. The HTTP(S) override can therefore use the default session, so SSO redirects that require conference cookies can fail. Create a handler factory that setswebPreferences.sessionto the sourceWebContents.session, and use it for the initial guest and all descendant popups. Add an integration assertion for session preservation.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/videoCallWindow/ipc.ts`:
- Around line 360-365: The popup handler around the video-call webview must
preserve the opener’s session for HTTP(S) conference windows. Create a handler
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Repo: RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron PR: 3485
File: docs/video-call-window-management.md:382-383
Timestamp: 2026-09-04T14:17:46.216Z
Learning: In Rocket.Chat Electron, `handleConferenceWillNavigate` in `src/videoCallWindow/ipc.ts` allows conference webview navigations and server-side redirects for `http:`, `https:`, `file:`, `data:`, `about:`, and `blob:`. The `file:` and `data:` allowlist entries predate pull request `#3485`, from `#3370`.
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Problem
Since 4.16.0, SSO login through an identity-provider popup fails inside the internal video call window. This affects Pexip, whose web client performs the login in a popup by default (Pexip docs) and hands the result back through
window.opener.#3370 registered a window-open handler on the conference webview that returns
denyfor every http(s) URL and opens it in the system browser. A popup in the system browser has no opener relationship with the webview, so the login never completes. 4.15.0 had no handler on the guest webview, so the popup opened as an Electron child window and the flow worked.Change
src/videoCallWindow/ipc.tshandleConferenceWebviewWindowOpen, used only for the conference (guest) webview:foreground-tab/background-tabdispositions (middle-click, ctrl-click): system browser +deny, as before.allowas a sandboxed Electron child window (nodeIntegration: false,contextIsolation: true,sandbox: true,webviewTag: false, no preload, created hidden and shown onready-to-show).about:/blob::allow, as before.javascript:,data:,file:,smb:, ...):deny, as before.did-create-windowon the guest webview re-applies the same window-open policy and the sharedwill-navigatepolicy to the child window, so a nested popup or an in-popup redirect cannot escape it.will-navigatebody is extracted intohandleConferenceWillNavigateso both call sites share it.handleVideoCallWindowOpenunchanged (http(s) still goes to the system browser).src/videoCallWindow/main/ipc.main.spec.ts: tests for the new guest policy (allow with sandboxed prefs, tab dispositions external, dangerous schemes denied,did-create-windowwiring) plus a test proving the host page policy is unchanged.docs/video-call-window-management.md: "Conference Webview Popup Policy" section.Verification
yarn jest src/videoCallWindow: 4 suites, 54 tests passed.npx tsc --noEmit: clean.yarn lint: 0 errors (37 pre-existing warnings in unrelated files).window.open('/idp'),/idp302s to/callback,/callbackposts towindow.openerand closes), opened throughwindow.RocketChatDesktop.openInternalVideoChatWindow(url, { providerName: 'pexip' })on the server webview. Observed via the main-process inspector: the popup was created as an Electron window withnodeIntegration: false,contextIsolation: true,sandbox: true, no preload; the callback page hadwindow.opener; the conference page received the posted result; the popup closed itself.Not yet verified against a live Pexip deployment.
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