How to tell htmlunit to ignore certain errors

Question

I am currently trying out HtmlUnit. I want to fill out an form and then submit it. But this results in an error, which seems to be caused by a file not being accessible, which results in a connection reset being thrown. How can I suppress this, as this is not crucial considering the loading process of the whole website? It doesn't seem to affect the program, though, I just want it to be silenced.

Apr 05, 2012 12:25:13 PM com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage loadExternalJavaScriptFile
Schwerwiegend(severe): Error loading JavaScript from [*link*].
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.fillBuffer(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:149)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.SocketInputBuffer.fillBuffer(SocketInputBuffer.java:110)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionInputBuffer.readLine(AbstractSessionInputBuffer.java:264)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultResponseParser.parseHead(DefaultResponseParser.java:98)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractMessageParser.parse(AbstractMessageParser.java:252)
    at org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:281)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection.receiveResponseHeader(DefaultClientConnection.java:247)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.receiveResponseHeader(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:219)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doReceiveResponse(HttpRequestExecutor.java:298)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:125)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:645)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:464)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:776)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.HttpWebConnection.getResponse(HttpWebConnection.java:152)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseFromWebConnection(WebClient.java:1439)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponse(WebClient.java:1358)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.loadJavaScriptFromUrl(HtmlPage.java:1008)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.loadExternalJavaScriptFile(HtmlPage.java:950)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript.executeScriptIfNeeded(HtmlScript.java:349)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript$1.execute(HtmlScript.java:230)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.doProcessPostponedActions(JavaScriptEngine.java:642)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.access$400(JavaScriptEngine.java:79)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine$HtmlUnitContextAction.run(JavaScriptEngine.java:590)
    at net.sourceforge.htmlunit.corejs.javascript.Context.call(Context.java:537)
    at net.sourceforge.htmlunit.corejs.javascript.ContextFactory.call(ContextFactory.java:538)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.execute(JavaScriptEngine.java:499)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.execute(JavaScriptEngine.java:474)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.executeJavaScriptIfPossible(HtmlPage.java:870)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript.executeInlineScriptIfNeeded(HtmlScript.java:302)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript.executeScriptIfNeeded(HtmlScript.java:368)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript$1.execute(HtmlScript.java:230)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlScript.onAllChildrenAddedToPage(HtmlScript.java:240)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser$HtmlUnitDOMBuilder.endElement(HTMLParser.java:598)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser$HtmlUnitDOMBuilder.endElement(HTMLParser.java:556)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLTagBalancer.callEndElement(HTMLTagBalancer.java:1142)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLTagBalancer.endElement(HTMLTagBalancer.java:1044)
    at org.cyberneko.html.filters.DefaultFilter.endElement(DefaultFilter.java:206)
    at org.cyberneko.html.filters.NamespaceBinder.endElement(NamespaceBinder.java:329)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner$ContentScanner.scanEndElement(HTMLScanner.java:3018)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner$ContentScanner.scan(HTMLScanner.java:2005)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLScanner.scanDocument(HTMLScanner.java:908)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLConfiguration.parse(HTMLConfiguration.java:499)
    at org.cyberneko.html.HTMLConfiguration.parse(HTMLConfiguration.java:452)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser$HtmlUnitDOMBuilder.parse(HTMLParser.java:789)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser.parse(HTMLParser.java:225)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HTMLParser.parseHtml(HTMLParser.java:179)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultPageCreator.createHtmlPage(DefaultPageCreator.java:221)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.DefaultPageCreator.createPage(DefaultPageCreator.java:106)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseInto(WebClient.java:433)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadDownloadedResponses(WebClient.java:2187)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.doProcessPostponedActions(JavaScriptEngine.java:625)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.processPostponedActions(JavaScriptEngine.java:707)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement.click(HtmlElement.java:1246)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement.click(HtmlElement.java:1195)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement.click(HtmlElement.java:1158)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlImageInput.click(HtmlImageInput.java:138)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlImageInput.click(HtmlImageInput.java:99)
    at com.tronicguard.discovery.WebsiteManipulatorImplementation.<init>(WebsiteManipulatorImplementation.java:71)
    at Main.main(Main.java:10)

Answer 1

Try the following

webClient.setThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode(false);

It should handle the 404 (Not found) error status.

Answer 2

I experienced a similar error while running the test harness of Jenkins after compiling with the jkd1.7.0_3. Moving back to the JDK1.6.0_30 solved the problem.

Answer 3

HtmlPage.loadExternalJavaScriptFile() will always log this error depending on the settings for your logging. You would need to disable logging for the page, or change the threshold.

For example , if you're using log4j, you can set the property log4j.logger.com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage = FATAL

This will however hide the logging of all errors logged in HtmlPage.