The driver fails to read the environment properly

[robinstraub]

Dusk Version

11.13.0

Laravel Version

11.13.0

PHP Version

8.2

PHPUnit Version

10.5.17

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

Dusk determine the selenium server url by searching for a DUSK_DRIVER_URL variable in $_ENV. This works properly with Sail when issuing a sail dusk (one can even specify a custom driver url with a DUSK_DRIVER_URL=http://my-custom-url:4444).

However this fails in several environment :

• tested personally in a local environment with a "default" php-fpm setup
• in Github Actions

After a little bit of research, the culprit is the use of $_ENV (see this stackoverflow question).

In both of these configurations the env variables are defined $_SERVER, not $_ENV.

Can this be considered a "bug" or is it the expected behavior ? I can see a couple solutions :

• use getenv('DUSK_DRIVER_URL') instead of $_env['DUSK_DRIVER_URL']
• use a combination of $_ENV and $_SERVER to search for DUSK_DRIVER_URL

I'm not sure whether it would open security issues tho, with regard to loading an environment variable from a broader context ... Although I don't see how loading an environment variable from another context for Dusk test execution, even in production could lead to a security breach (RCE and so on).

I modified my DuskTestCase for my project to fix my issue, however if you see value in making this change to the base repo I'd be glad to submit a PR

Steps To Reproduce

1. setup a default laravel project
2. install Dusk
3. modify DuskTestCase, line 40, to specify an invalid URL (here)
4. run DUSK_DRIVER_URL=http://localhost:9515 php artisan dusk, Dusk should use the invalid URL

[crynobone]

I believe we can utilize env() helper function directly here since it's being used when application is already booted. Can you submit a PR @robinstraub ?

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[robinstraub]

Sure thing, U can assign it to me I'll submit a PR when I'm back from office