Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {“desiredCapabilities”:{“browserName”:“chrome”,“platform”:“ANY” with Selenium and PHPUnit

Question

I am doing running all tests using PHPUnit. Created a wrapper that launches an instance of Apache, then starts the Selenium standalone server, then creates the Chrome Remote

Answer 1

This error message...

 [exec] Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\WebDriverCurlException: Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","chromeOptions":{"binary":"","args":["--window-size=1400,900","--no-sandbox","--headless"]},"goog:chromeOptions":{"args":["--window-size=1400,900","--no-sandbox","--headless"]}}}

...implies that Curl error was thrown while initializing the Chrome Browser session.

Your main issue seems to be with the desiredCapability platform being set as ANY.

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As per the platformName section of Processing capabilities - WebDriver W3C Living Document, the following platform names are in common usage with well-understood semantics and, when matching capabilities, greatest interoperability can be achieved by honoring them as valid synonyms for well-known Operating Systems:

Key         System
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"linux"     Any server or desktop system based upon the Linux kernel.
"mac"       Any version of Apple’s macOS.
"windows"   Any version of Microsoft Windows, including desktop and mobile versions.

Note:This list is not exhaustive.

When returning capabilities from New Session, it is valid to return a more specific platformName, allowing users to correctly identify the Operating System the WebDriver implementation is running on.

So instead of passing "platform":"ANY" within the desiredCapabilities object, a more specific "platform":"windows" will be more desirable approach.