Watir with webdriver, proxy, Firefox

Question

I am able to use watir-webdriver with IE, but I would prefer to use Firefox. Problem: I need a proxy. By googling around, I found some code snippets, but I am not able to pu

Answer 1

The base problem in your original question is right in the error message

webdrivertest.rb:3: syntax error, unexpected tCONSTANT, expecting keyword_do or '{' or '('

The ruby interpreter is seeing something on the third line of your script that looks like a constant, in a place it's expecting something else.

I suspect it's the start of the line where ruby expects a variable name, and you have a classname. Ruby expects variables named starting with an uppercase to be a constant. which is fine for defining a class, but not creating an instance of one, since the instance won't be a constant.

It also looks like you are trying to do a new invocation using a 'new' keyword ala some other language, instead of using a .new method on whatever object you want to make a new one of, the ruby way.

Compare the code in the answer by Mike where he does

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new

verses what you were trying to do on line 3

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

See how different they are? His is the way to do it.

Answer 2

Call the underlying Selenium WebDriver.

I've used this technique to set a path to Firefox 3.6 so I can test with both Firefox 4 and 3.6:

Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox.path = ENV['FIREWATIRPATH']
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox

So to do what you're trying to do:

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new(:http => "http://proxy.org:8080")
profile.proxy = proxy

# You have to do a little more to use the specific profile
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox, :profile => profile
browser = Watir::Browser.new(driver)

Look at: Selenium Ruby Bindings and Webdriver FAQ for more info.

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What problem are you having with the Proxy line?

You could try this:

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile["network.proxy.type"] = 1
profile["network.proxy.http"] = "proxy.myplace.com"
profile["network.proxy.http_port"] = 8080

The idea is to see what your settings are in about:config and duplicating them in code.

Answer 3

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile.proxy = Selenium::WebDriver::Proxy.new :http => '12.12.12.12:8888', :ssl => '15.15.15.15:443'
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile