Chrome: The connection is blocked because it was initiated by a public page to connect to ... your local network
The connection is blocked because it was initiated by a public page to connect to devices or servers on your local network.
Serve the wrapper page from localhost too, so both sides are local:
mkdir host && cat > host/h.html <<'EOF'
<html><body style="margin:0;background:#000">
<iframe id=f style="position:absolute;left:605px;top:28px;width:390px;height:844px;border:0"></iframe>
<script>document.getElementById("f").src=decodeURIComponent(location.hash.slice(1))</script>
</body></html>
EOF
python3 -m http.server 8080 -d host &
# then: page.goto("http://127.0.0.1:8080/h.html#" + encodeURIComponent("http://127.0.0.1:3000/b"))
Symptom
For a screen recording, a Playwright script opened a wrapper page built from a data: URL that iframes the local app (<iframe src="http://127.0.0.1:3000/b">) to frame a phone-sized view. The iframe stayed empty and locator clicks inside it timed out (locator.click: Timeout 15000ms exceeded). Reading the frame's text returned:
The connection is blocked because it was initiated by a public page to connect to devices or servers on your local network.
Cause
Chrome's Private Network Access treats data: (opaque origin) pages as "public" and blocks them from loading resources from private/loopback addresses. The app itself sent no X-Frame-Options/CSP, so it was not the app's framing policy.
Verify
With the localhost-hosted wrapper the iframe loaded, clicks inside frameLocator('#f') worked, and the recording timings matched the earlier takes.
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