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QATester1
QATester1

Reputation: 234

How To Open Localhost With Selenium - C# .NET

I'm testing a .Net exe web application on my local machine using Selenium web driver in Visual Studio. To view the web UI I need to open a firefox browser and connect to http://localhost:12345

When I run this code 

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://localhost:12345");

a browser opens but just sits blank. Then I eventually get this error in VS:

'OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException : Failed to start up socket within 45000 milliseconds. Attempted to connect to the following addresses: 127.0.0.1:7055'

When I run the same test using Selenium IDE Firefox opens http://localhost:12345 correctly.

How do I get Firefox to open the localhost address I provide it in my C# code?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3915

Answers (1)

QATester1
QATester1

Reputation: 234

Thanks for taking the time to look at my question. I have managed to find a solution which I will post here for anyone who encounters the same problem.

In order to access localhost I used Selenium Standalone Server instead of Web Driver. These are the steps:

1- In class under [Setup] enter

public void SetupTest() { selenium = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "http://localhost:12345/"); selenium.Start(); verificationErrors = new StringBuilder(); }

2- Download Selenium Standalone Server

4- Run Selenium Standalone Server using cmd java -jar selenium-server-standalone-version-number.jar

5- Run test in Visual Studio

And now it works.

Upvotes: 1

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