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IE is the hardest browser to get working with Selenium. You will need a driver, available from http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=3.3/, but even with that, I failed. And I tried hard. If you really must use a MS browser, I was able to get Edge working and I understand that it is now MS's recommendation. The Edge driver is available from https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/.

Do i need to install a webdriver for Firefox or I.E ? - Yes, different drivers for each.

I'm really lost because i though i just have to use module Selenium::Remote::Driver - No, S::R::D on its own is very rarely enough.

Regards,

John Davies

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Re^4: Simple code using Selenium::Remote::Driver
by Perlchaoui (Sexton) on Nov 08, 2018 at 14:34 UTC

    Thanks John. I can imagine you are busy so thank you, appreciated.

    ok; i decided to follow you advice and avoid to use I.E. But as i am still on Win 7 i decided to test with Chrome browser instead of Edge.

    Here is the code 

    #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More;
#use Test::Time;
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;


my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new(
    'remote_server_addr' => 'localhost',
    'browser_name' => 'chrome',
    'port' => '4444',
);

$driver->get('http://www.google.com');

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    But i got almost the same issue ,as follows : 
    C:\Users\Documents\TESTPERL>perl TEST.pl
Could not create new session: Unable to create new service: ChromeDriv
+erService
Build info: version: '3.14.0', revision: 'aacccce0', time: '2018-08-02
+T20:13:22.693Z'
System info: host: 'LBNL13608', ip: '10.132.5.117', os.name: 'Windows 
+7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_191'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown at TEST.pl line 9.

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    I launched the chrome webdriver and standalone Selenium server is up and running on port 4444. Maybe it's coming from the location. Because i already added the current location in my %PATH% and as you can see it's not working

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      use strict; use warnings;
use feature 'say';
use Selenium::Chrome;
my $url = 'http://www.perlmonks.org';

my $driver = Selenium::Chrome->new();
$driver->get($url);
say $driver->get_title();
$driver->quit();

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      This works for me, provided that chromedriver is in my path and that everything is up to date. You will get problems if versions are mismatched. Using Win10, I have S::R::D 1.30, chromedriver 2.43.600210 and Chrome 70.0.3538.77.

      Hope this helps.

      Regards,

      John Davies

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        Thank you very much John for your time and the support

        I finally found what was going wrong

        I had to use chromedriver in conjunction with Selenium server, with the following command:

        java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.
+33.0.jar

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        That's why my code wasn't running

        I begin to loove Perl ! :)

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