Unable to launch IE

[sajnikanth]

Steps

• On a windows machine, download IEDriver and add to path
• Use the sample script here
• Run using holmium - nosetests test_selenium_hq.py --with-holmium --holmium-browser=ie -v

Actual Results

• Unable to initialize dirver; refer to screenshot
• I can launch IE with selenium though; refer to screenshot

[alisaifee]

There's definitely a bug in holmium when launching the IE Webdriver. However, after resolving that I still get problems with selenium interacting with the browser (even when I use selenium directly).

Could you verify that the following code doesn't cause problems on your side?

from selenium import webdriver 
ie = webdriver.Ie()
ie.get("http://www.google.com")
ie.delete_all_cookies()
ie.close()
ie.quit()

[sajnikanth]

I get this exception at ie.delete_all_cookies(). The browser isn't closed at ie.quit().

[alisaifee]

@sajnikanth the fix above gets --with-holmium --holmium-browser=ie to launch IE and let you communicate with the iedriver. However, because of the failure to issue subsequent commands on the driver such as delete_all_cookies or close there doesn't seem to be much you can actually do with it.

If you can figure out a way to get a simple workflow to work with webdriver.Ie directly by passing in specific options etc, please let me know and I'll try to integrate them into holmium.

[sajnikanth]

Thanks @alisaifee

Following the instructions here, I turned off Protected Mode and was able to use webdriver for a little while. Then I noticed IE doesn't let me use username / password in URLs. There is a work-around given here, but I think I'm gonna let it be. Too much to invest for too little returns!