UnhandledWebDriverError: Permission denied for <http://www.facebook.com> to get property Window.frameElement - SEE COMMENTS 47, 55 AND 64 FOR WORKAROUND

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2863

I'm sending a message to select an iframe (http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/JsonWireProtocol#/session/:sessionId/frame)
to selenium via the facebook php bindings / RemoteWebDriver, but instead of selecting
the frame I'm getting an exception:

08:38:00.730 WARN - Exception thrown
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Permission denied for <http://www.facebook.com>
to get property Window.frameElement; duration or timeout: 15.04 seconds
Build info: version: '2.12.0', revision: '14666', time: '2011-11-10 18:35:23'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_29'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver

    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:147)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:113)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:416)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver$RemoteTargetLocator.frame(RemoteWebDriver.java:636)

    at org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver$EventFiringTargetLocator.frame(EventFiringWebDriver.java:561)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.SwitchToFrame.call(SwitchToFrame.java:52)

    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.server.handler.SwitchToFrame.call(SwitchToFrame.java:1)

    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)

    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: Permission
denied for <http://www.facebook.com> to get property Window.frameElement
Build info: version: '2.12.0', revision: '14666', time: '2011-11-10 18:35:23'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version:
'1.6.0_29'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown

I'm using Firefox 8.  I can't tell whether this is new behavior since changing from
FF8 or Selenium 2.11 or changing to the facebook php bindings.  Sorry I can't be more
specific but a lot is in flux at the moment.  It does happen 100% of the time though.

Here's the relevant line from the selenium log:

08:37:45.693 INFO - Executing: [switch to frame: app_runner_4ec53860c57652b93621183]
at URL: /session/1321547817083/frame)

Thanks for your help.

-DB

Reported by dbyron0 on 2011-11-17 16:46:41

[lukeis]

I did a bit of version swapping and figured this out.  I no longer get the exception
with Firefox 7, using selenium 2.12.  So perhaps FF8 is doing something differently?
With any luck the stack trace is helpful.

Reported by dbyron0 on 2011-11-17 17:40:21

[lukeis]

This should be fixed by r14704 (i.e. will be part of the 2.13 release). Please reopen
if that's not the case.

Reported by jari.bakken on 2011-11-17 18:36:39

• Status changed: Fixed

[lukeis]

Selenium 2.13 works with FF7, but when I upgrade to FF8 I get the same stack trace as
with 2.12.

Reported by dbyron0 on 2011-11-18 16:25:30

[lukeis]

Reported by jari.bakken on 2011-11-18 23:30:12

• Status changed: New

[lukeis]

I can confirm this happens for Firefox 8 when switching to a frame with an empty ID
provided:

driver.switchTo().frame("");

Once I added the proper ID instead of an empty string the exception was gone.

Reported by VooooD on 2011-11-19 12:00:49

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2011-11-19 15:42:42

• Labels added: Component-WebDriver, Browser-Firefox

[lukeis]

As far as I can tell, the JSON I'm sending includes a non-empty ID.  I don't think curl
in php doesn't have something like CURLOPT_DEBUGFUNCTION and I haven't looked a protocol
analyzer, but I believe I'm sending:

{"id":"app_runner_4eca6feeba17f4c43088079"}

Reported by dbyron0 on 2011-11-21 15:36:48

[lukeis]

@VooooD  Try finding a WebElement for the frame and switching to that:

WebElement iframe = driver.findElement(By.name("my-iframe"));
driver.switchTo().frame(iframe);

@dbyron0 You could try the same, but I'm not sure if the php bindings support this.

Reported by jmleyba on 2011-11-25 03:31:27