#selenium

Hello

where can I address death threats to people developing phantomJS?

why would you do that?

:phantomjs

No users will ever visit your site using a browser even approximating phantomjs. While phantomjs is based on a rendering engine used by one of the major desktop browsers (webkit), it's not the current version, and more importantly, the javascript engine is completely different.

hazmeister-sl meh, I just inherited some stuff that uses phantomJS to take snapshots into PDFs

for whatever reason it always generates second page with some random stuff that shouldn't ever be there

phantomjs is being depreacted

for reasons such as the bugs you describe

checkout headless chrome

is it really?

which does a similar job

yeah, we're using headless chrome for other tasks

but is nearly full on chrome under the hood

I kinda hacked around Laravel Dusk to use it, this is just full legacy trash

so phantom

here’s the depreacate announcement: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/phantom...

basically it grew legs, and pretending to be a browser is hard

hazmeister-sl makes sense, headless chrome is great. Even regular Xvfb Chrome was okay, if it worked

no reason to use something custom

it's like using Netscape

i see no benefit in your scenario

hazmeister-sl what do you mean?

in using phantomjs

you’ve identified an area where it performs badly

hazmeister-sl yeah, the thing is, reworking this part would take a while

it generally works as it is

it just does one thing it shouldn't

sadly it just being "bad" doesn't grant me a budget to rework it from scratch

are you using webdriver, or talking to phantom direct?

because webdriver would let you drop in a replacement browser

hazmeister-sl we're using WebDriver for the part that uses headless chrome

the part using phantom is using a PHP/LAravel package from Spatie

hi

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hello!

I need to construct the driver Object without actually launching a browser or communicating with selenium-server (I don't have the luxury in this case of waiting for the Object by communicating with selenium-server and launching marionette/ff). I had asked yesterday how to switch the session_id for a given driver object and it's not officially supported from the API, but I spent yesterday hacking around and I have successfully switched the session_id and url t

in python?

ruby

that's pretty much it

Would have been easier in python

why's that?

There were examples of people switching the session_id... things aren't as private

oh that's right ruby enforces private attribute access right?

yeah :/

+1 pytohn

Just glad I'm done with that part of the task

happy :friday everyone

dude-x: just because python is easier to make hacky things with doesnt mean its better :P

:)

python runs faster than ruby too

i'd say it's easier to monkeypatch ruby than python

dude-x: I’d contest that and say it’s heavily dependent on what you’re doing :)

I am trying to upload a large file using selenium , using `browser.setFileDetector(new remote.FileDetector());, remote.FileDetector() fails with OOM if the file is too large`https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-go...

is there any other workaround to upload a large file using selenium?

let an http client do the uploading

@dude-x you mean like a REST request?

@dude-x you mean like a REST call i mean?

i mean like a HTTP POST

yeah my bad , i get it , thanks let me give it a try

Cheers

Running my tests through a software proxy on IE

should IE be reverting proxy changes when the test finishes?

hazmeister-sl: what do you mean

so I’m using BrowserMob Proxy to assert certain network requests are sent

chrome creates disposable profiles, so, the proxy changes are only for that individual profile

but when you change the browser proxy on IE, it changes the setting for the rest of Windows

which is mildly annoying, as the software proxy disappears when my automated test ends

I could workaround it, but I’m wondering if it should be doing that in the first place

I go to manually verify some bits in IE, and I get told the proxy no longer exists

I don't think IE is sandboxed

hazmeister-sl: yeah I don’t think there’s really any way around that short of putting it all in a container and proxying the container

hazmeister-sl in general changes to IE are "permanent"

becuse there's no private profile created

cool, I thought as much

I guess I could spin up a new webdriver at the end of the test with no proxy

Morning!