How to collect logs for Browser Content Redirection(BCR) issues

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Article ID: CTX696940

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Description

Instructions 

Instructions to collect BCR console Logs

1) Enable Debug logging in extension:

Enable both debug logging and send logs to CDF during this session

For Chrome check: chrome://extensions/?options=hdppkjifljbdpckfajcmlblbchhledln

For Edge check: edge://extensions/?options=bplkihdnjcccjobckoegomfljihhjean 

 

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2)Enable Developer mode in your browser:

On your browser go to Extensions, for Chrome use: chrome://extensions/ ,and for Edge use: edge://extensions/ 

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3) Open Service Worker 

Once Developer mode is enable you should be able to see the service worker for each of your extensions (This might not show if DevTools is disabled by policy, check chrome://policy/ or edge://policy/)

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Click the Service Worker on BCR extension and you should be able to see a devtools window

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Make sure that in the Network tab Preserve is enabled and that the console log is logging data

 

5) To save the logs after reproducing the issue:

Go into the Network tab and click the download HAR file 

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Go into the console tab, right click in the log area and select Save As..

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Instructions to collect CDF Traces

1) Open CDFControl.exe as Administrator (https://support.citrix.com/external/article/CTX111961/citrix-cdfcontrol-tool.html)

2) Select the following modules: 

HDX_Multimedia_BrowserService

HDX_Multimedia_HdxjsInjector

HDX_Multimedia_HdxWebProxy

HDX_Multimedia_MultimediaComponents

HDX_Multimedia_PortForwardLibrary

HDX_Multimedia_PortForwardService

HDX_Multimedia_WebSocketAgent

HDX_Multimedia_WebSocketPipe

HDX_Multimedia_WebSocketService

IcaClient_DriversVd_BrowserRedir

IcaClient_Multimedia_HdxBrowser

 

3) Start the CDF trace, reproduce the issue and then stop it, the trace location will appear in a popup window

Issue/Introduction

This article provides the procedure for enabling debug logging and collecting the required diagnostic data for BCR-related issues.