[Feature]: Support navigation history for the current page

[dudicp]

Feature description

Description:
I would like to get the navigation history for the current page.

Proposed Solution:
CDP supports the ability to navigation history for the current page Page.getNavigationHistory It will be nice to have this feature exposed in Puppeteer.

[OrKoN]

Could you please clarify why the existing Web API (navigation.entries()) does not fulfill your use case?

[dudicp]

The Web-API (navigation.entries()) returns the entires for navigation performed on the same-origin.

While CDP Page.getNavigationHistory is returning entries cross-origin.

I have a use-case to check navigation history when navigation from domain A to domain B in the same tab.

For example example.com -> google.com:

• Web-API: there will be only one navigation history entry.
• CDP: there will be 2 navigation-history entries.

[OrKoN]

Could you provide any high-level details about the use case (i.e., why do you need to check the cross-origin history)?

[dudicp]

At a high level, I'm developing a proxy solution which using client-side code that manipulates the browser's history (via pushState and replaceState) during cross-origin navigation. I need to verify the values of the navigation entries as part of this process.

Currently, I'm able to achieve this by using Puppeteer's page._client() to send CDP commands.
However, I believe it would be beneficial to have this functionality exposed directly through the Puppeteer API.