WWW::Selenium woes

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

Greetings Monks,

I stumbled upon Selenium, a test tool for web applications. Aslo I found a CPAN module, WWW::Selenium, that acts as a perl driver for Selenium.

I have installed WWW::Selenium and while trying to execute the following sample code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Selenium;
use WWW::Selenium::Launcher::MacDefault;

my $selenium = WWW::Selenium->new;

$selenium->open( 'http://localhost/selenium/SeleneseRunner.html' );
$selenium->verify_title( 'Some title' );
$selenium->click_and_wait( 'link_id' );
$selenium->stop;
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I get the following error:

Error fetching result: Timed out! at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/WWW/Selenium/CommandBridge.pm line 45 at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/WWW/Selenium.pm line 106

I have read a couple of threads on the mailing list, but could not figure out how to solve this. Pls help.

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Re: WWW::Selenium woes by polettix (Vicar) on Mar 07, 2006 at 17:35 UTC
Just a quick, obvious, blind checklist: is a HTTP server running on localhost, listening to port TCP/80? is the page `/selenium/SeleneseRunner.html` available through this HTTP server? Can you see from the browser, for example? Is the page correct? have you identified which is the offending command among `new`, `open`, `verify_title`, `click_and_wait` and `stop`? What's in line 106 of the module? Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: WWW::Selenium woes by InfiniteLoop (Hermit) on Mar 07, 2006 at 17:40 UTC
Yes, Im able to access the url via my browser. Also the command that WWW::Selenium executes seems to be 'open'. The line 106 is this code: `my $result = $self->{bridge}->get_result;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]