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anonymous-one
anonymous-one

Reputation: 15092

Bind selenium to a specific IP - Possible?

Like many, we start selenium server via the following command:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.21.0.jar

What we found is that this opens selenium up on 0.0.0.0:4444

Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:4444

[USER @ BOX ~]# netstat -na | grep LISTEN | grep 4444
tcp        0      0 :::4444                     :::*                        LISTEN

Is there any way to bind selenium to a specific ip (localhost)?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 18

Views: 24419

Answers (5)

Mohit Malhotra
Mohit Malhotra

Reputation: 11

I was also facing the same problem with the Hub. So my Hub is pointing toward some other IP address when I tried to UP the hub, but when I check my IP address it was different on my local system. To overcome the problem I just tried the following code and it works.

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.12.0.jar -host 192.XXX.X.XX -role hub

And my hub was registered to my local machine IP address.

Upvotes: 1

user3243994
user3243994

Reputation: 76

This is not the correct way of handling this problem but its a way

So what this will do is just drop any connection on port 4444 from any outside source. You can test this by first going to page

start server like this

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.39.0.jar -host 127.0.0.1 -port 4444

verify everything is working

http://yourexternalip:4444/wd/hub/

the page will load. if your server is running properly.

Dispatch the commands

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 4444 -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 4444 -j DROP

then reload the page. the webpage will no longer be accessible (because you are accessing from external IP)

your new accessible URL is now

http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub/

which should be working

Again this is more of a band-aid to a greater problem and doing this will not force you to change any source code and still keeping a secure system

Upvotes: 5

Steltek
Steltek

Reputation: 119

This will be possible by adding the "-host 192.168.1.100" parameter, provided you have this fix in your version:

https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/detail?r=71c5e231f442

(That fix isn't included in the available binaries at the time of writing so you will have to build your own from source.)

Upvotes: 2

retornam
retornam

Reputation: 339

Use the following command

    java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.21.0.jar -host 192.168.1.100

where 192.168.1.100 is the IP address of the host

Upvotes: 9

Amey
Amey

Reputation: 8548

You could run java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.21.0.jar on a remote machine

and then in your selenium scripts define your webdriver to run remotely.

In ruby you could do it this way 

@driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :url => "http://specific_ip_of_remotemachine:4444", :desired_capabilities => firefox)

is this what you are looking for?

Upvotes: 0

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