battlesnake CLI niot showing browser board

[Ghdhdhdh]

./battlesnake play -W 11 -H 11 --name "Snake Starter Project" --url "https://example.com" -g solo --browser

The command works when I run it without the --browser flag. With it, it just shows a browser that says "Failed to Fetch"

[xtagon]

Hi @Ghdhdhdh! I tried it myself, and didn't see the "Failed to Fetch error". Everything worked expected for me, so here are a few diagnostic questions that might help us figure out why you're seeing something different:

1. Do you mean that you ran it with --url "https://example.com/" literally, or (I assume) you used your actual snake's URL?
2. Is your snake API running on localhost, or remotely?
3. Does your snake's API accept HTTPS, if your URL specified that?
4. What is the output of the ./battlesnake ... command? It should print some logs that might help.
5. When the browser says "Failed to fetch", is this on the page, or in the Javascript console, or something else?
6. Are there any other errors in the Javascript console (web developer tools) when the browser opens?
7. What OS are you using, and what Battlesnake CLI version? I tried on Windows 10 using https://github.com/BattlesnakeOfficial/rules/releases/download/v1.2.3/battlesnake_1.2.3_Windows_x86_64.tar.gz
8. Which browser opens? i.e. Chrome, Firefox?

[Ghdhdhdh]

1. I used my snake URL, but censored it
2. remotely
3. It does work
4. ~/workspace/rules$ ./battlesnake play --name Test --url -v --browser
   INFO 04:25:49.711902 Snake ID: 8a2c23aa-c065-41ab-a013-5bb3fb9e0b34 URL: , Name: "Test"
   INFO 04:25:49.796631 Board server listening on http://127.0.0.1:36345
   INFO 04:25:49.796649 Opening board URL: https://board.battlesnake.com?engine=http://127.0.0.1:36345&game=1bcca050-f7fd-4924-940f-857c7439878c&autoplay=true
   INFO 04:25:49.835269 Ruleset: standard, Seed: 1740284749456927140
   Turn: 0
5. In the browser
6. Failed to fetch
7. Linux, and I pulled from source, but we have the same issue using the binary aswell.
8. It opens a new tab

So I'm using replit and my goal is to get it running and viewable forever. So I need to be able to run games basically how the official website does it, however we want to modify code to suit our needs.

Thanks for even replying in the first place. Appreciate it

[xtagon]

Ahh, so you're using Replit. The problem is that the Battlesnake CLI is serving the board on 127.0.0.1 (i.e. localhost, i.e. your Replit instance), and then trying to use that address in the board URL publicly. But 127.0.0.1 in your browser resolves to your localhost, not Replit.

I don't recall the solution on the top of my head, but I vaguely remember someone has seen this issue before in the live streams.