Failed to reuse Remote Webdriver browser, for browser chrome it failed with Exception

[omkarkhatavkar]

🐛 Bug Report

Failed to reuse Remote Webdriver browser, for chrome options and it failed with Exception

To Reproduce

• Start the selenium server
  • [root@okhatavk Downloads]# java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar 20:17:44.521 INFO [GridLauncherV3.parse] - Selenium server version: 3.141.59, revision: e82be7d358 20:17:44.611 INFO [GridLauncherV3.lambda$buildLaunchers$3] - Launching a standalone Selenium Server on port 4444 20:17:44.947 INFO [SeleniumServer.boot] - Selenium Server is up and running on port 4444
• Run Below Python Code

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {'download.prompt_for_download': False}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
options.add_argument('disable-web-security')
options.add_argument("--no-sandbox")
options.add_argument("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
driver_1 = webdriver.Remote(desired_capabilities=options.to_capabilities())
driver_1.get('http://www.google.com')
executor_url = driver_1.command_executor._url
session_id = driver_1.session_id
driver2 = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=executor_url, desired_capabilities={})
driver2.sessions_id = session_id

Exception

WebDriverException: Message: Unable to create session from {
  "desiredCapabilities": {
  },
  "capabilities": {
    "firstMatch": [
      {
      }
    ]
  }
}
Build info: version: '3.141.59', revision: 'e82be7d358', time: '2018-11-14T08:25:53'
System info: host: 'okhatavk.pnq.csb', ip: '127.0.0.1', os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-891.el7.x86_64', java.version: '1.8.0_171'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
Stacktrace:
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.NewSessionPipeline.lambda$null$4 (NewSessionPipeline.java:76)
    at java.util.Optional.orElseThrow (Optional.java:290)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.NewSessionPipeline.lambda$createNewSession$5 (NewSessionPipeline.java:75)
    at java.util.Optional.orElseGet (Optional.java:267)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.NewSessionPipeline.createNewSession (NewSessionPipeline.java:73)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.commandhandler.BeginSession.execute (BeginSession.java:65)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.WebDriverServlet.lambda$handle$0 (WebDriverServlet.java:235)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call (Executors.java:511)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run (FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run (ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
    at java.lang.Thread.run (Thread.java:748)

Expected behaviour

Webdriver driver_1 should be get attached driver_2 without exception

Environment

OS: Linux (Redhat)
Browser: (Chorme)
Browser version: (67)
Browser Driver version:
Language Bindings version: python 3.7
Selenium Grid version (if applicable): Selenium 3.14

[AutomatedTester]

Unfortunately this is not how it works by design. It would be better to keep track of the browser and just make sure that it is up and in the state you want rather than trying create a new WebDriver object which implicitly sends a New Session call

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