Whatsapp and Messenger broken on WB 4

[VarunAgw]

• Wavebox Version: [e.g. 3.0.0] v4 Latest
• Operating System & Version: [e.g. Windows 10, Mac OSX 10.3.4, Ubuntu 17.10] Win 10

Since today, I am getting this error on WhatsApp and Messenger.

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Note: Works fine on Chrome.

[Thomas101]

I've seen this with Messenger, but it normally indicates a sign-in problem. If you remove the account, add it again and sign back in, does it work?

Can you send a screenshot of the WhatsApp error - this is something we haven't seen before

[nlenkowski]

Just saw this today for WhatsApp as well. Deleting the account and recreating it didn't work at first, but after manually logging out of WhatsApp and logging back in (via the new account) things seemed to be working again. However, after restarting Wavebox the problem resurfaced.

I can login to WhatsApp web via Chrome without issue. I've also tried setting a custom user agent to spoof Chrome on MacOS to no avail. Here's the error message I'm seeing.

Thanks for looking into this!

[nlenkowski]

Just noticed that if I click "Go Back" from the error message and then click on "WhatsApp Web" from the navigation I can login just fine. A strange bug for sure. Also, forgot to mention that I'm on MacOS Catalina 10.15.2 and Wavebox 4.11.11.

[VarunAgw]

Yes. I just came here to add this. Same on messenger. Click "return home". Login on facebook. Then press the home button on address bar.

[Thomas101]

It looks like Facebook are slowly releasing an update which means some accounts are affected and some are not. The root cause in Wavebox 4 looks to be down to the way that Electron integrates with the network stack.

I've pushed out a new beta with a workaround for this, so you should be able to get it working again More info on how to switch to the beta

Also if you're interested, Wavebox 10 is unaffected by this as it's built directly on top of Chromium

[VarunAgw]

@Thomas101 May I ask (out of curiosity) how did you solve the issue? You said it's because of the network layer but in the commit, you did something with the user agent only.

[Thomas101]

Electron uses a different implementation of some of the network layer, which means there are some oddities in parsing things like CSP headers.

The update that's rolling out to WhatsApp & Messenger seems to hit up against some of these oddities, but still change their behaviour based on the detected browser version. For the short term we've set chrome 77 as the UserAgent for these two as a workaround.

This is why WB10 isn't affected because it has a far more commonly tested and run-in network stack so we don't see spurious bugs like this and we don't have to use weird workarounds :)

Do you mind if I keep this open for now, just until it hits stable?

[VarunAgw]

Sure. I liked WB10 and jumped onto it very enthusiastically. But after a week, I felt it's not stable and ready for me yet, so I had to downgrade, unfortunately.

I will upgrade to it in future again once it's more stable.

[amig]

Had similar issue with WhatsApp in version 4.11.11. Switched to Beta (4.11.12) an problem solved.