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Asked: 2026-05-30T17:57:48+00:00

I’m trying to access web from watir webdriver through proxy. Can be HTTP or

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I’m trying to access web from watir webdriver through proxy. Can be HTTP or SOCKS

Here is my code so far. I found sample (last 3 lines), but it gives me error:

irb

require "watir-webdriver"
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome

switches = '--proxy-server=88.12.44.205:3128'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => switches
browser.goto "http://ipaddresslocation.org"

Started ChromeDriver port=53928 version=18.0.1022.0
log=C:\Users\Raimis\chromedriver.log ArgumentError: :args must be an
Array of Strings
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.20.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/chrome/bridge.rb:71:in create_capabilities'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.20.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/chrome/bridge.rb:20:ininitialize’
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.20.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:37:in new'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.20.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:37:infor’
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.20.0/lib/s
elenium/webdriver.rb:61:in for'
from C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-webdriver-0.5.3/lib/watir
-webdriver/browser.rb:35:ininitialize’
from (irb):6:in new'
from (irb):6
from C:/Ruby193/bin/irb:12:in‘

this line gives me error

browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => switches

Any tips on how solve this error?

Edit:

here is the final code which worked for me: 

irb
require "watir-webdriver"
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => ['--proxy-server=88.12.44.205:3128']
browser.goto "http://ipaddresslocation.org"
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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that the ‘switches’ value needs to be an ‘array of strings’ rather than just a string.

    The following should work:

    browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => ['--proxy-server=88.12.44.205:3128']

    Or if you have a lot of options to set, then you might do:

    switches = Array.new
switches << '--proxy-server=88.12.44.205:3128'
#Add other switches values to the array
browser = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, :switches => switches
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