Drag and Drop of Repo URL sometimes fails (Chrome on MacOS)

[aathan]

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Would someone please provide some guidance on how to chase down the root cause of this problem, and/or perhaps attempt to re-create the issue in order to determine if it is in fact NOT local to me?

This problem may in fact be caused by Chrome (more likely), or it may be some quirk in Github (less likely). How might it be GitHub? Perhaps there are page attributes or HTTP header attributes that cause the URL to have characteristics incompatible with generated a .webloc??

I'm just looking for hints on how to gather more details about this problem so I can submit a bug to the right group, if this is in fact a bug, would be helpful. I am not sure if drag & drop failures are logged anywhere or where to look for such logs.

I did open the developer tools and observed that there is no additional network traffic during the drag & drop operation.

Issue description:

I maintain references to useful repos by keeping ".webloc" links in directories on my computer. These ".webloc" files are generated by some combination of technologies when drag & dropping the little icon to the left of the URL in Chrome on MacOS onto a Finder folder window.

Sometimes, this drag and drop fails for mysterious reasons. For example, when navigating to:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

If I attempt to drag and drop this URL, it always fails. I tried performing the same Drag & Drop operation on a separate computer running a different version of MacOS. If I instead navigate to the README.md of that repo:

https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/blob/main/README.md

This URL is draggable (out of the exact same instance of Chrome --same tab/window-- onto the same destination folder).

This leads me to believe there is some aspect of the page source, or protocol interactions between github and Chrome, causing the drag & drop failure.

[ebndev]

Hi @aathan thanks for posting in GitHub Discussions!

I've gone ahead and moved this post to our Repositories category, as this topic may be more relevant there and might help someone give you a nudge in the right direction 😄

If it turns out to be a bug, having this in the right category will ensure your feedback can be reviewed by the proper GitHub team.

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