In web automation selenium python when running code without a headless working fine but with headless chrome it navigates to the unexpected page

Question

Using Python/selenium running without headless mode is working fine but with headless Chromedriver it navigates to an unexpected page.[expected dashboard but in headless navigates to profile after login but in normal working fine]
Note: in geckodriver headless working fine
Python code:

if value == "True":
    chromeOptions.add_argument("--headless")           
    chromeOptions.add_argument('window-size=1920,1080')         

capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME.copy()       
if self.getPlateform() == "Windows":
    chromedriver = self.SRC_DIR +'yxyz\\chromedriver.exe'
else:
    chromedriver = self.SRC_DIR +'yxyz/chromedriver'
    logging.info(chromedriver)
    return webdriver.Chrome(
        executable_path=chromedriver,
        options=chromeOptions,
        desired_capabilities = capability
    )

Comments

Hey @Raghvir, Are you getting any error in the process?

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After login, I expected to user dashboard page but it navigates to the profile page. So the assertion fails.

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Are you running it on a Linux or windows? As of today, when running chrome headless on Windows., you should include the  --disable-gpu flag

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On both Linux and on the window as well.

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Try something like this:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_experimental_option("excludeSwitches",["ignore-certificate-errors"])
options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_driver_path = "C:\Python27\Scripts\chromedriver.exe" //your chromedriver path

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nothing can change....thanks for looking into this hope we will find solution soon

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Hey @Raghvir, did the above snippet help? Did you find a solution? Please post it as the answer in case you found a solution for the same.

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Headless chrome may be faster on same machine than headed, try adding some wait and check if it works.