Click() method in C# is not returning, causing the test to hang.

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 5071

I have a Web Element (a link) that is correctly found on my page.

<a onclick="javascript:doPostDMS('en-us'); return false;" id="btnPentana" title="Post
To DMS" class="shelf-button lnkPostToDMS" href="javascript:__doPostBack('btnPentana','')"></a>

The problem I have is when I execute the click
1. The button is clicked
2, A new browser window is opened (this tells me I did actually click)

Problem: the click method doesn't return and the test hangs.

With the following code:

Console.WriteLine("Before");
Driver.FindElementById("btnPentana").Click();
Console.WriteLine("After");

I see the Before statement written to the console. I see the new window open (a result
of clicking the link). I do Not see the "After".

I expect to have the Click method return so I can continue on by switching to the new
window, etc.

Selenium version: selenium-server-standalone-2.29.0.jar
selenium-dotnet-2.29.1.zip
OS: Windows 7
Browser: Firefox 15.01, Chrome 20.0.1132.47 m
Browser version:

Reported by brianwork@brianandsherri.com on 2013-01-24 21:09:03

[lukeis]

We need a reproducible scenario, that must include a sample page or a link to a public
site's page where the issue can be reproduced.

Reported by barancev on 2013-01-26 13:50:21

• Status changed: NeedsClarification
• Labels added: Browser-Firefox

[lukeis]

Here is the error that is thrown:
OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server
for URL http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/session/be8e564b-785a-4333-bd0f-e3ebc19efb1b/screenshot
timed out after 60 seconds. ---> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
Status: Timeout
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
in c:\Projects\WebDriver\trunk\dotnet\src\WebDriver\Remote\HttpCommandExecutor.cs:line
124
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.HttpCommandExecutor.CreateResponse(WebRequest request)
in c:\Projects\WebDriver\trunk\dotnet\src\WebDriver\Remote\HttpCommandExecutor.cs:line
134
   at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute,
Dictionary`2 parameters) in c:\Projects\WebDriver\trunk\dotnet\src\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver.cs:line
836
   at DealerSocket.Automation.Common.ScreenshotRemoteWebDriver.GetScreenshot() in C:\WS\DSTeam\Main\Automation\Source\DealerSocket.Automation.Common\ScreenshotRemoteWebDriver.cs:line
24
   at DealerSocket.Automation.Common.ScreenshotRemoteWebDriver.GetScreenshotAsImage()
in C:\WS\DSTeam\Main\Automation\Source\DealerSocket.Automation.Common\ScreenshotRemoteWebDriver.cs:line
31
   at DealerSocket.Automation.Common.BaseTest.Execute(Uri remoteAdress, ICapabilities
capabilities, Action`1 action, Boolean deleteCookiesAtStart) in C:\WS\DSTeam\Main\Automation\Source\DealerSocket.Automation.Common\BaseTest.cs:line
49
   at DealerSocket.Automation.Common.BaseTest.Execute(ICapabilities capabilities, Action`1
action) in C:\WS\DSTeam\Main\Automation\Source\DealerSocket.Automation.Common\BaseTest.cs:line
22
   at DealerSocket.Automation.Web.Administrator.OEMDispositionTest.DMSPush(DesiredCapabilities
cap, String site) in C:\WS\DSTeam\Main\Automation\Source\DealerSocket.Automation.Web.Administrator\OEMDispositionTest.cs:line
387

I don't have a public site to provide.
Send me a message and maybe we can set up a skype session to help you get the information
necessary to reproduce it.

IE works.
Firefox and Chrome do not.
Selenium version: selenium-server-standalone-2.30.0.jar
selenium-dotnet-2.30.0.zip
OS: Windows 7

Reported by brianwork@brianandsherri.com on 2013-02-19 20:01:12

[lukeis]

We are having the same issue and the site isn't public either.

In our case, there is an a tag with an onclick attribute inside of a frame.  I see
in the original post that the issue was with an a tag and an onclick attribute.  I
haven't tried other sites yet as I don't know of any public sites that match my test
criteria.  Hopefully someone can duplicate the issue on a public web site.

I have only tested this on Firefox.  Happens on Linux and Windows.

Thanks!

Reported by jason.r.paddock on 2013-03-11 23:51:46

[lukeis]

I've got the same issue for the following site:

Precondition: Register test user here - http://delivery.realeyesit.com/Account/Register
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open http://delivery.realeyesit.com/Account/LogOn
2. Input  User name
3. Input Password
4. Click LogOn button
throws the following exception:
OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server
for URL http://localhost:31571/session/54c9102d21d3e091b5a27d4543d758e7/element timed
out after 60 seconds. ---> System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out

browser Chrome, webdriver 2.30.0, .Net

Reported by VoljaBes on 2013-03-27 11:03:45

[lukeis]

I have a similar issue with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.  When clicking on a button which
brings up a "Look up record' dialog, Chrome and FF will hang on the .Click() action.


IE 9.0, surprisingly, will return from the .Click() event and continue on (not sure
if that's indicative of anything).

Thanks,

Eric.

Reported by eric@thepelletiers.ca on 2013-04-05 15:16:30

[lukeis]

Any progress on this one please? I face this as well..

Reported by deepak.upl on 2013-05-03 10:05:29

[lukeis]

I faced this problem with our product as well.  We have a button that forces the server
to do a lot of back end work and when completed will return a page.  I think the problem
here is webdriver's wait for page to load method doesn't complete in time (.NET has
a default http timeout of 100 seconds, don't know why this is 60 seconds but it appears
to be the same).  A simple solution I have found which you may or may not want to do
is surround the click in a try/catch.  

Here is a sample:
try { driver.FindElement(By.Name("submitbtn")).Click(); }
catch (OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException) 
{ 
   //timed out as usual, let's just let it go since the page will still load and we
can move on
}

Reported by phase12 on 2013-05-03 15:30:31

[lukeis]

Any update on this?
I get this error consistently on one page of our web-app for IE8 on XP, with the latest
Selenium .Net webdriver version 2.33
For webdriver v2.21 I never get it on the same webpage.

The fail comes while clicking a tab on a page, which then performs a lot of Ajax calls.

The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL...timed out after 60 seconds
Has this timeout reduced since v2.21?

Thanks

Reported by tonywrenn on 2013-07-01 14:00:21