Question

I have a cucumber test suite I want to run in Internet Explorer environment the problem is that I am on a linux machine. So I thried to follow this, somewhat outdated, guide.

I’m using a local VM to try and run the tests on and there I have started the standalone selenium server which tells me that:

RemoteWebDriver instances should connect to: http://127.0.0.1:4444/wb/hub

Now this seems a bit odd that I have localhost here as connect to but no matter it’s on the same physical machine so should pose no problems or?

Well next in my env.rb I have defined the following:

Capybara.app_host = "http://hostname:4444"
Capybara.default_driver = :selenium
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app,
    :browser => :remote,
    :url => "http://MYNETWORKIP:4444/wd/hub",
    :desired_capabilities => :internet_explorer)
end

as the guide suggests. But when I run the test I get the following error:

bad URI(is not URI?): 127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub (URI::InvalidURIError)

I suspect it has something to do with me being behind a proxy since I needed to do some special settings for Firefox(iceweasel) to run.
Those settings were:

Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
  profile                                       =   Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
  profile["network.proxy.type"]                 =   2
  profile["network.proxy.autoconfig_url"]       =   "http config adress here"
  profile["network.proxy.no_proxies_on"]        =   "localhost, 127.0.0.1, #{%x[hostname].gsub("\n", "")}"
  profile["network.proxy.http"]                 =   "proxy http address here"
  profile["network.proxy.http_port"]            =   3128
  profile["network.proxy.ssl"]                  =   "ssl proxy http address here"
  profile["network.proxy.ssl_port"]             =   3128
  profile["network.proxy.share_proxy_settings"] =   true
  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, :profile => profile)
end

Spent alot of time trying to get this to work now so I need some help
Thx in advance

EDIT:

Realized that some versions might be of help.
From gemfile:

 cucumber (1.1.9)
 rails (2.3.11)
 selenium-webdriver (2.20.0)

EDIT 2:

Further tries with changing the url to my network ip address gives me another error:

both URI are relative (URI::BadURIError)

EDIT 3:

Now with the help of Jon M I get a bit further but encountering:

 unexpected response, code=404, content-type="text/html"

EDIT 4:

Latest update:

Changed the connection settings in my env.rb

This gives me a connection to my virtualbox and starts up my IE browser YAY!
BUT! It cannot connect to the application.

Answer 1

I expect the ‘bad URI’ message is due to the missing protocol – try prefixing ‘127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub’ with ‘http://’

Edit (in response to your update):

Just spotted the address… 127.0.0.1 refers to localhost, but if the Selenium server is running on a different machine, surely you should be using the IP address of that machine?

e.g. http://some.other.ip:4444/wd/hub