Make headless browser stop loading page

Question

I am using the watir-webdriver ruby gem. It starts the browser (Chrome) and begins to load a page. The page is loading too slowly, and watir-webdriver raises a timeout error. Ho

Answer 1

There are a couple of different ways to do what you're wanting, but here's what I would do:

require 'watir-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 60 
@browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :http_client => client

begin
  @browser.goto mySite
rescue => e
  puts "Browser timed out: #{e}"
end

next_command

If you have a lot of sites you're trying to load for confirmation of timeout or not, put them in an array:

mySites = [
          mySite1,
          mySite2,
          mySite3
]

mySites.each do |site|
   begin
      @browser.goto site
   rescue
      "Puts #{site} failed to load within the time allotted."
   end
end

UPDATE for proof of concept. This script always proceeds to step 2. The rescue isn't even necessary for the second goto, but is being used for clearer output. How is your script different than this?

require 'watir-webdriver'

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 1     #VERY low timeout to make most sites fail
@browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :http_client => client


def testing
   begin
     @browser.goto "http://www.cnn.com"
   rescue => e
     puts "Browser timed out on the first example"
   end

   begin
     @browser.goto "http://www.foxnews.com"
   rescue => e
     puts "Browser timed out on the second example"
   end
end