getting URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> in selenium webdriver using python in phantomjs

Question

I'm using Selenium Webdriver in Python.

While running the script in headless browser(phantomjs) I'm getting an URLError:

<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> 

Any one can please help to handle this?

Answer 1

Having Googled this, it seems to happen unpredictably but after I've made a few requests with Selenium / Phantom. If I create a new webdriver with driver = webdriver.PhantomJS() then I'm able to continue making requests. I suggest others use the same workaround.