[Selenium] Don't stop on HTTP error 403

Question

In one of my Selenium test cases, I try to ensure that certain pages can't be accessed. Instead, HTTP return code 403 should be given.

However, here Selenium terminates test execution with the following exception:

com.thoughtworks.selenium.SeleniumException: XHR ERROR: URL = http://user:[email protected]/admin Response_Code = 403 Error_Message = Forbidden

Any way to work around that?

Answer 1

Seems like I have to answer the question myself...

I now surround the "open" call with a try...catch block. There, I parse the exception message if it contains the 403 code and XHR ERROR. Seems to me not very clean, but it works.

Answer 2

I don't know what language you're using, but I think you can get around this by instructing Selenium to ignore the status code when opening a page. In Ruby this would be doable with something like:

@browser.remote_control_command('open', [url, 'true'])

I believe the behavior in Selenium trunk is to now ignore the status code by default. So, you could try building that and see if it works out for you.

Answer 3

I ve used the try catch stucture but it appear $this->open() method does not throw errors. The test does end and I cannot check what is in the catch because it doesnt get there. Can you explain more in detail? Thanks in advance.