Selenium: Safari unable to establish a connection with the SafariDriver 2.48 extension

[roshanhadal]

Hi,

I am new to this so excuse my ignorance. I am running the selenium web driver withing my angular-seed project through protractor-jasmine tests. It works fine with Chrome and Firefox drivers. I am not able to run the same with Safari. I even installed latest 2.48 Safari extension but I still get the connection issue. (screenshot attached). Following is my system info:
OS: OS X El Capitan 10.11.2
Safari: Version 9.0.2 (11601.3.9)
Not sure if this is a security issue or the driver issue as I have updated to latest OS X. I have looked at older issues which were on older versions of Safari/OS X. Any pointers will help.

[vveliev]

it does not look like you have extension installed correctly, check #1315

[pi4r0n]

@roshanhadal I am running exact same OS, Safari and same plugin version and it works for me, so I would advise to reinstall plugin.

[roshanhadal]

@pi4r0n great to know that. Just to eliminate any missing step, can you describe the steps to install and enable the plugin? I believe I am missing something here as I am new to Mac OS X. Btw I have upgraded to OS X 10.11.3.

[pi4r0n]

• Go to this URL http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.48/ and save SafariDriver.safariextz
• Open Safari and drag and drop this plugin into it
• Safari will ask you Are you sure you want to install the extension “WebDriver”? Trust
• If you use SSL webpage it will keep asking you to trust the certificate so just save it permanently.

that all I had to do @roshanhadal

[roshanhadal]

It's not working for me still. Does it depend on Java version or anything else?

[pi4r0n]

@roshanhadal I have just updated to below versions, tried above steps and it works fine

OS: OS X El Capitan 10.11.3
Safari: Version 9.0.3 (11601.4.4)

Do you want to try upgrading as we;; and see if that fixes your problem

[roshanhadal]

Is it possible that we get on a skype call and you look at it? I may be missing something very silly and you can catch me.

[pi4r0n]

@roshanhadal, sure I can have quick look. Send me contact request on skype pi4r0n and will take it from there ;)

[ghost]

Hi @roshanhadal , did you ever find a fix? I'm having the same issue, followed the steps above with no success.

[ddavison]

@KevvvvyP weirdly enough, i was getting this issue too. after I restarted the browser, it worked fine (to the point where I right click Safari in the dock, click Quit, then restart Safari.

[roshanhadal]

@KevvvvyP sorry! I was away and couldn't respond in time. No, this problem hasn't gone away for me. Maybe you, I and @pi4r0n can get on with a Skype call and discuss this issue. Let me know your timezones and suitable time for the call. I am in IST. @KevvvvyP send me your Skype id.

[ramesh1588]

@roshanhadal I am facing the same issue, did you find any fix for the same? thanks, Ramesh.

I am having the below error,

ERROR: com.google.gson.JsonObject cannot be cast to java.lang.String

[roshanhadal]

@ramesh1588 Nope. I am still having issues.

[pi4r0n]

@roshanhadal / @KevvvvyP I am available this Sunday to have quick Skype session if you still want to look at it ??

[divyaef16]

Am also facing the same issue unable to establish the connection with safari.I tried ut all possible things.
i am using selenium with C#.Included the safari extz in safari browser still facing the issue.Browser is getting opened that it gets opened from c:file......
Please give me some solution to this

[divyaef16]

hi @roshanhadal did u find a fix for the same

Thanks divya

[roshanhadal]

@divyaef16 No, I haven't found the fix yet. In my case, Chrome and Firefox are my primary browsers. Currently, I am manually testing for Safari. I keep trying this but haven't seen success so far. Will update the day I find a fix for this problem.

[lukeis]

With the release of Safari 10, Apple now offers official support WebDriver. Because of this, the Selenium project no supports the legacy implementation from 2.x.

Users are advised to switch to Apple's driver and file bugs at
https://bugreport.apple.com/

We are no longer tracking issues for Selenium's SafariDriver and thus closing this issue.