In Selenium IDE, how to get the value of the base url

Question

Is it possible to retrieve the value of the base url from inside a Selenium script (a plain HTML-saved script from Selenium IDE)?

What I\'m trying to do

Answer 1

After struggling with using the verifyLocation selenium IDE command (which only gives you the host name to verify, and will include parts of the query string which may be widely random at runtime) the way to verify the current url and path which is the most flexible (so far) is to use the "verifyEval" command and use javascript to parse out the portion of the url I want to test:

verifyEval | window.location.pathname=="/my/stuff" | true

You can put any of the location properties that javascript supports and test those (see https://gist.github.com/jlong/2428561)...

Command: verifyEval
Target: window.location.pathname=="/my/stuff"
Value: true

OR for example:

Command: verifyEval
Target: window.location.hostname=="example.com"
Value: true

Or feel free to make combinations

Command:verifyEval
Target: window.location.protocol+'//'+window.location.hostname+window.location.pathname=='http://example.com/my/stuff'
Value:true