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Fixes #14452

What changed

Scripted new-window requests for URLs that cannot run in a hardened popup now return deny instead of navigate. The preview setWindowOpenHandler only calls loadURL for navigate. about:blank and similar URLs no longer replace the opener. Tab dispositions still load in the preview tab.

Why

window.open('about:blank') from a preview page returned null and then loaded about:blank over the opener. MSAL opens its popup this way and then falls back to redirect, but the redirect ran from a blanked page. A plain deny keeps the opener alive so the SDK fallback works. This is a small obvious bug fix. It touches one decision function plus its handler and tests.

Verification

• vp test run apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts -t "previewWindowOpenAction" --maxWorkers 2 gives 3 passed, 89 skipped, 1.9s
• vp lint on both touched files gives clean except one pre-existing warning in an unrelated test helper
• tsc --noEmit in apps/desktop gives exit 0
• fallow audit --base main --brief gives no findings on changed lines, only pre-existing candidates with incomplete graph caveats

No screenshots. No visual change, only navigation behavior.

Flow

flowchart TD
  A[window.open in preview] --> B{disposition?}
  B -- tab --> C[navigate: loadURL in preview tab, deny popup]
  B -- new-window http https --> D[popup: allow hardened window]
  B -- new-window other --> E[deny: no loadURL, opener survives]
  E --> F[MSAL sees null, uses redirect fallback]

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a narrowly scoped popup-navigation fix, but it changes the authentication flow for OAuth/MSAL integrations and the security-sensitive handling of preview-created windows. The tests cover the new decision paths, while the remaining concern is the authentication and popup-hardening impact of the runtime policy change.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Scripted new-window requests for unsupported URLs are denied without navigating the preview tab. HTTP(S) popup requests still use hardened popups, and other dispositions still navigate in the preview tab.

Changes

Preview popup policy

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify preview window requests apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts	previewWindowOpenAction returns navigate for non-new-window dispositions, popup for HTTP(S) new-window URLs, and deny for other new-window URLs.
Apply the popup action apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts	The handler loads a URL into the preview tab only for navigate requests. Tests cover about:blank navigation for foreground-tab and denial of scripted popup requests, including empty URLs.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 24c49

The preview currently preserves the opener for denied popups, but the tests do not protect that handler behavior; a focused test would reduce the chance of breaking SDK redirect fallbacks later.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to 24c49

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/desktop

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/desktop (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts: The foreground-tab test now expects about:blank to navigate in the preview tab. A separate test expects scripted popups to be denied for about:blank, empty URLs, and the previously covered unsafe or invalid URLs; the former expectation that those popup requests navigate was removed.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts: The popup-policy comment now says unsupported popup URLs are denied without navigating, preserving the opener for SDK fallback; it replaces the statement that those popups load in the preview tab.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts: The documentation now distinguishes denied scripted new-window requests from tab-disposition links. previewWindowOpenAction returns "navigate" for non-new-window dispositions, "popup" for HTTP(S) new-window URLs, and "deny" for other new-window URLs; previously the latter also returned "navigate".
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts: The handler now computes the open action once, allows hardened popups for "popup", loads the URL into the preview tab only for "navigate", and falls through to denial for "deny". Previously every non-popup request was loaded into the preview tab before denial.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for apps/desktop: blast_radius_1; direct_dependents_1

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: denying about:blank popups without navigating the preview.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the implementation, the linked issue, scope rationale, verification commands and results, and the absence of visual changes. The headings differ from the template…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the coding requirements in [#14452]. previewWindowOpenAction returns deny for scripted new-window requests with non-HTTP(S) URLs, including about:blank and an empty URL. Th…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed files are limited to apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts and its focused test file. The implementation, policy documentation, and tests directly support [#14452]. No unrelated behavior o…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…

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apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts (1)

164-184: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the registered window-open handler

Manager.test.ts:138-184 tests only PreviewManager.previewWindowOpenAction. The fixtures provide setWindowOpenHandler: vi.fn() but do not capture or invoke the registered callback. Therefore, restoring the handler's unconditional loadURL dispatch would leave these tests passing.

Add a handler-level test that invokes the callback with a denied scripted popup and asserts { action: "deny" } without calling loadURL.

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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts around lines 164 -
184:
Add a handler-level test in the PreviewManager tests that captures and invokes
the callback registered through setWindowOpenHandler for a denied scripted
popup. Assert that it returns the deny action without calling loadURL, so the
test detects any unconditional navigation dispatch in the registered handler.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts:
- Around line 164-184: Add a handler-level test in the PreviewManager tests that
captures and invokes the callback registered through setWindowOpenHandler for a
denied scripted popup. Assert that it returns the deny action without calling
loadURL, so the test detects any unconditional navigation dispatch in the
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[Lucenx9]

Withdrawing this one. Macroscope marks it not auto-approvable because it touches auth and popup hardening policy, and I only want to send PRs it accepts. The fix itself stays valid for #14452 if a maintainer wants to pick it up from this branch.

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Note

This comment is posted by Julius' dot

Closing for missing UI verification. This changes preview navigation and whether a popup attempt leaves the opener usable, but the PR provides no captures and only tests the decision helper.

Please add before/after screenshots and a short desktop recording of the blank-popup case, showing the opener survives and its redirect fallback can start. Keep the blank-URL scope approved in #14452, or explain why the other schemes must change, then request reconsideration.