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Asked: 2026-05-17T19:25:24+00:00

When I read out the HTML returned by Watir, it gives me a page

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When I read out the HTML returned by Watir, it gives me a page directing me to come back on a browser through my Mac or PC. It seems I am being redirected by a user agent given through Watir. I thought I was driving the browser with Watir, but this doesn’t seem to be the case. 

ie = Watir::IE.new
ie.goto "http://www.apple.com/safari/download"

ie.checkbox(:name, "21.1.9.12.3.1.3.0").clear

Which returns an UnkownObjectException. Same with trying to click the submit button.

Using firebug I can find the checkbox fine, that’s how I found the :name. So I next redirected the HTML output from Watir into a file for inspection,

myfile = File.new("safaridebug.html", "w+")
myfile.puts ie.html
myfile.close

Looking through safaridebug.html is where I noticed I was on a different page from the web browser. Is there someway in watir I can get the actual HTML that is present in my web browser, maybe a user agent spoof? Thanks.

System Specs:
VM running Win XP SP2,
ruby 1.8.7,
IE 8

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  1. Editorial Team

    Watir is working correctly in that case. There is no special user-agent or anything used by Watir because plain old IE is used and it’s user-agent is sent by the IE itself of course.

    The reason why you cannot find the checkbox with Watir or from the HTML is that the checkbox is in a frame 🙂 Look for a frame tag in that html and you can understand why you were not able to find it before.

    You can access it from the frame instead:

    b.frame(:id, "download-frame").checkbox(:name, "21.1.9.12.3.1.3.0").clear

    If you’re getting access denied errors when trying to access frames, then just read the instructions at http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Frames

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