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[🐛 Bug]: Remote Debugging with --headless flag on Chrome #1952

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What happened?

I'm trying to launch Chrome with the --headless flag and --remote-debugging-port=9222 for automation purposes. However, when I run Chrome in headless mode, the WebDriver throws a SessionNotCreatedException, and it can't connect to Chrome on port 9222. When I remove the --headless flag, everything works fine.

Has anyone encountered this issue before? Is there a known limitation with remote debugging in headless mode, or is there a workaround for this? I'm using Chrome version [insert version] and ChromeDriver version [insert version]. Any help would be appreciated!

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.remote.webelement import WebElement
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support.select import Select
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException


class WebDriverInstance:

    def __init__(self, port, headless=False, download_directory=None, timeout=10):
        self.port = port
        self.headless = headless
        self.download_directory = download_directory
        self.timeout = timeout
        self.driver : webdriver.Chrome = self._create_webdriver()

    def _create_webdriver(self) -> webdriver.Chrome:
        chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
        chrome_options.debugger_address = f"localhost:{self.port}"

        if self.headless:
            chrome_options.add_argument("--headless")
            chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-gpu")
            chrome_options.add_argument("--window-size=1920x1080")
            chrome_options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
            chrome_options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")

        try:
            driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options)
            return driver

        except Exception as e:
            raise Exception(f"Erro ao criar WebDriver na porta {self.port}: {e}")

Just to be clear... If I open a chrome instance manually with google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 and run webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) without --headless, it connects.

If I let webdriver.Chrome(options=chrome_options) instantiate chrome with --headless, it also works.

What doesn't work are both things.

What browsers and operating systems are you seeing the problem on?

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