Selenium WebDriver.get(url) does not open the URL

Question

from selenium import webdriver from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0 import time   # Create a new instance of the Firefox driver driver = webdriver.Firefox()   # go to the google home page driver.get("http://www.google.com") 

This opens a Firefox window but does not open a url.

1. I have a proxy server(but the address bar does not show the passed url)
2. I have two Firefox profiles.

Can 1 or 2 be an issue? if yes, then how can I resolve it?

Answer 1

It is a defect of Selenium.
I have the same problem in Ubuntu 12.04 behind the proxy.

Problem is in incorrect processing proxy exclusions. Default Ubuntu exclusions are located in no_proxy environment variable:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8 

But it seems that /8 mask doesn't work for selenium. To workaround the problem it is enough to change no_proxy to the following:

no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.1 

Removing proxy settings before running python script also helps:

http_proxy= python script.py