Selenium server did not return proper status

NeerajPandey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am running into an issue. I want to use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS. I have set it up as follow.
1. Installed Strawberry and WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS Module
2.Downloaded PhantomJS zip, extracted it and set the path for phantomjs executable.
3. created a sample script as follow:

BEGIN{
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'http://myproxyserver:port';
$ENV{HTTP_PROXY}  = 'http://myproxyserver:port';
}
use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS;
use Data::Dumper;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new();
$mech->get('http://google.com');
print Dumper $mech->content();
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but when I execute this script I get the following error:

Selenium server did not return proper status at C:/Strawberry/perl/sit
+e/lib/Selenium/Remote/Driver.pm line 395.
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whats that I am missing. I assume that this WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS starts phantomjs from path specified in environment.

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Re: Selenium server did not return proper status by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 23, 2015 at 11:05 UTC
The following script works for me and prints what could well be the Google home page: `use strict; use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS; use Data::Dumper; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS->new(); $mech->get('http://google.com'); print Dumper $mech->content();` [download] As there are many moving parts in your configuration, let's go through them: You say you installed PhantomJS after installing WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS. This means that the test suite of the module could not actually check whether it can run a `phantomjs` executable. This is inconvenient. Please check that a `phantomjs` executable is actually visible in your PATH by opening a command line window and typing `phantomjs` in there. Please also tell us the version of the PhantomJS executable that is found and run. You are using a HTTP connection for a HTTPS proxy. Are you sure that the proxy is at the given address and that PhantomJS is happy with using a HTTPS proxy over HTTP? Can you run a test without needing a proxy? What versions of the modules (WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, Selenium::Remote::Driver) do you use?	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Selenium server did not return proper status by NeerajPandey (Novice) on Dec 23, 2015 at 11:59 UTC
upon running phantomjs on cmd I can see a prompt 'phantomjs>' installed versions are as WWW::Mechanize 1.75 WWW::Mechanize::Firefox 0.78 WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS 0.11 Selenium::Remote::Driver 0.27 proxy is correct as I use the same in browser. and even w/o proxy error remains same.	[reply]