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Setting to disable redirect file browser launch #4999

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Setting to disable redirect file browser launch
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Removing unneeded tornado setting
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33 changes: 30 additions & 3 deletions notebook/notebookapp.py
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Expand Up @@ -645,6 +645,24 @@ def _default_log_format(self):
help=_("Whether to allow the user to run the notebook as root.")
)

use_redirect_file = Bool(True, config=True,
help="""Disable launching browser by redirect file

For versions of notebook > 5.7.2, a security feature measure was added that
prevented the authentication token used to launch the browser from being visible.
This feature makes it difficult for other users on a multi-user system from
running code in your Jupyter session as you.

However, some environments (like Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Chromebooks),
launching a browser using a redirect file can lead the browser failing to load.
This is because of the difference in file structures/paths between the runtime and
the browser.

Disabling this setting to False will disable this behavior, allowing the browser
to launch by using a URL and visible token (as before).
"""
)

default_url = Unicode('/tree', config=True,
help=_("The default URL to redirect to from `/`")
)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1805,6 +1823,12 @@ def launch_browser(self):
if not browser:
return

if not self.use_redirect_file:
uri = self.default_url[len(self.base_url):]

if self.token:
uri = url_concat(uri, {'token': self.token})

if self.file_to_run:
if not os.path.exists(self.file_to_run):
self.log.critical(_("%s does not exist") % self.file_to_run)
Expand All @@ -1820,9 +1844,12 @@ def launch_browser(self):
else:
open_file = self.browser_open_file

b = lambda: browser.open(
urljoin('file:', pathname2url(open_file)),
new=self.webbrowser_open_new)
if self.use_redirect_file:
assembled_url = urljoin('file:', pathname2url(open_file))
else:
assembled_url = url_path_join(self.connection_url, uri)

b = lambda: browser.open(assembled_url, new=self.webbrowser_open_new)
threading.Thread(target=b).start()

def start(self):
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