Re: controlling Firefox using Perl

In the past I have opted to use Webdriver::Tiny. However I've only ever
used it with Chromium browser but the documentation says it can work with
Geckodriver.

The API for Webdriver::Tiny is slightly different from Selenium::Firefox
<https://metacpan.org/pod/Selenium::Firefox> so your code will need to be
modified.

https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/WebDriver-Tiny/lib/WebDriver/Tiny.pod#geckodriver


On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 15:28, Vlado Keselj <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> That is a very interesting problem.  I was also researching it and noticed
> this package Selenium but did not try it.  I would be interested to know
> what kind of problem you are trying to solve.
>
> Vlado
>
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, Gary Stainburn wrote:
>
> > Can anyone please point me to decent documentation for controlling
> Firefox
> > using perl?
> >
> > I am open to any solution, but I have already looked at both
> > Selenium::Firefox, and Selenium::Remote::Driver.
> >
> > I have Selenium::Firefox working on a Centos 7 box, but I can't find any
> > documentation on how to use it. So far, all I have managed to do is open
> a web
> > browser window, and get a web page and extract it's contents.
> >
> > I also have a working Selenium::Remote::Driver setup with a perl script
> on a
> > Centos 7 box controlling IE11 on a Win10 box.
> >
> > I have spent all day going round in circles with Google finding out of
> date
> > articles, and links pointing back to each other without success. I can't
> even
> > find any doc's on using Selenium::Firefox on the cpan pages for the
> module.
> >
> > I have gone through dependency hell installing Selenium::Remote::Driver
> on a
> > new Centos 7 box.  I then  installed Java and
> > selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar. However, when I try to run a
> script to
> > open a local Firefox window I get the error below on the selenium-server.
> >
> > Again, most of the articles relating this problem are old, circa 2016,
> and
> > refer to version compatibility issues.
> >
> > Any advice welcome.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > 13:30:25.459 INFO - Executing: [new session: Capabilities
> > [{acceptSslCerts=true, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true,
> version=,
> > platform=ANY}]])
> > 13:30:25.469 INFO - Creating a new session for Capabilities
> > [{acceptSslCerts=true, browserName=firefox, javascriptEnabled=true,
> version=,
> > platform=ANY}]
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to connect to
> host
> > 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output:
> >
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:112)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:271)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:119)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:218)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:211)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:129)
> >         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
> > Method)
> >         at
> >
> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
>
> >         at
> >
> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
>
> >         at
> java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.callConstructor(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:91)
>
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.newInstance(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:68)
>
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory.newInstance(DefaultDriverFactory.java:60)
>
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:222)
>
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:1)
>
> >         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1.run(DefaultSession.java:176)
>
> >         at
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
>
> >         at
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
>
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> > 13:31:10.967 WARN - Exception thrown
> > java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException:
> > org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:
> > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> > Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30
> > 17:37:03'
> > System info: host: 'study.stainburn.com', ip: '192.168.1.193', os.name:
> > 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64',
> > java.version: '1.8.0_282'
> > Driver info: driver.version: unknown
> >         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)
> >         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(FutureTask.java:192)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.execute(DefaultSession.java:183)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.<init>(DefaultSession.java:119)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession.createSession(DefaultSession.java:95)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverSessions.newSession(DefaultDriverSessions.java:124)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.NewSession.handle(NewSession.java:59)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.NewSession.handle(NewSession.java:1)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.rest.ResultConfig.handle(ResultConfig.java:111)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.JsonHttpCommandHandler.handleRequest(JsonHttpCommandHandler.java:79)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.handleRequest(DriverServlet.java:204)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.doPost(DriverServlet.java:166)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DriverServlet.service(DriverServlet.java:132)
> >         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:428)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.dispatch(ServletHandler.java:680)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.jetty.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:571)
> >         at
> org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1526)
> >         at
> org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpContext.handle(HttpContext.java:1479)
> >         at org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpServer.service(HttpServer.java:920)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpConnection.service(HttpConnection.java:820)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpConnection.handleNext(HttpConnection.java:986)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.jetty.http.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:837)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.jetty.http.SocketListener.handleConnection(SocketListener.java:243)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.jetty.util.ThreadedServer.handle(ThreadedServer.java:358)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.jetty.util.ThreadPool$PoolThread.run(ThreadPool.java:537)
> > Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException:
> > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> > Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30
> > 17:37:03'
> > System info: host: 'study.stainburn.com', ip: '192.168.1.193', os.name:
> > 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64',
> > java.version: '1.8.0_282'
> > Driver info: driver.version: unknown
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.callConstructor(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:101)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.newInstance(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:68)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultDriverFactory.newInstance(DefaultDriverFactory.java:60)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:222)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$BrowserCreator.call(DefaultSession.java:1)
> >         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.DefaultSession$1.run(DefaultSession.java:176)
> >         at
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
> >         at
> >
> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
> >         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
> > Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
> >         at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native
> > Method)
> >         at
> >
> sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
> >         at
> >
> sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
> >         at
> java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.FirefoxDriverProvider.callConstructor(FirefoxDriverProvider.java:91)
> >         ... 9 more
> > Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Failed to connect to
> binary
> > FirefoxBinary(/usr/bin/firefox) on port 7055; process output follows:
> >
> > Build info: version: '2.53.1', revision: 'a36b8b1', time: '2016-06-30
> > 17:37:03'
> > System info: host: 'study.stainburn.com', ip: '192.168.1.193', os.name:
> > 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64',
> > java.version: '1.8.0_282'
> > Driver info: driver.version: FirefoxDriver
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:124)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:271)
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:119)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:218)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:211)
> >         at
> > org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:129)
> >         ... 14 more
> > Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.NotConnectedException: Unable to
> > connect to host 127.0.0.1 on port 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console
> output:
> >
> >         at
> >
> org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:112)
> >         ... 19 more
> > 13:31:10.971 WARN - Exception: Unable to connect to host 127.0.0.1 on
> port
> > 7055 after 45000 ms. Firefox console output:
> >
> >
> >
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