Re^3: Error “selenium server did not return proper status” when starts PhantomJS

[aitap]

No file matching 'C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\Selenium\Remote\RemoteConnection.pm' is loaded.

Does f C:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm not work, either? The idea was to examine the variables $self and $status near the place of the error (sub BUILD in RemoteConnection.pm, lines 44-49 in my installation).

[natalie_g]

Sorry for slow poke ...

So I stumbled accross this thread because I have the same problem. And an ugly fix/work-around. Can't do any better because I don't know anything about perl.

1. Open StrawberryPerl\perl\vendor\lib\LWP\Protocol\http.pm
2. Find sub _new_socket
3. Set $host = '127.0.0.1' (maybe '::1' works, too?)

How did I find this solution? The debugging helped. The error reported by IO::Socket::INET is "bad address". Originally the host was "localhost". I have no idea why "localhost" is a bad address but "127.0.0.1" works.

For reference:

• nslookup localhost = no result
• ping localhost = ::1
• http://localhost:8910/ in browser opens as expected
• Windows 10, 64bit
• perl v5.22.0 MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
• Several network cards/adapters but only one enabled
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Default Windows Firewall
• Avast Free AntiVirus

[Anonymous Monk]

I found this fix as well, but it caused other issues as it affected everything. I found a better solution was to add this into ../Selenium/Remote/RemoteConnection.pm

Around line 103, before

    my $request = HTTP::Request->new($method, $fullurl, $header, $cont
+ent);

Add in this line:

 $fullurl =~ s/localhost/127.0.0.1/;

It accomplishes the same thing but limits the effect to Selenium only.