When creating a new chromedriver instance (in python): webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver"), I get an error http.client.BadStatusLine: ''. I am not navigating to a site, or using a server, just creating a new chromedriver. I am in a VirtualEnv that has the most recent version of Selenium (3.0.1) and chromedriver (2.24.1). This was working fine a few days ago, and I didn't change any code. I'm not really sure where to begin solving the code. My first step was to run pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt to make sure all packages were up to date. My only idea now is that selenium is no handling the default start page, with url as data;,, because there is no response. However, as that is the default behavior, I would be surprised if selenium could not handle its' own default behavior. Any help would be much appreciated!
When the code is run (via python from the bash terminal), a new chromedriver instance is successfully created, but the error http.client.BadStatusLine: '' gets thrown, and the python terminal loses the connection to the chromedriver.
Full code:
import pythonscripts
# Creates a new webdriver
driver = pythonscripts.md()
# Never gets here, attempts to use driver get NameError: name 'driver' is not defined
Pythonscripts md method:
def md():
return webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver")
Full error output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/cad_tests/pythonscripts.py", line 65, in md
return webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver")
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py", line 69, in __init__
desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 92, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 179, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, capabilities)
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 234, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 407, in execute
return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)
File "/Users/brydenr/server_scripts/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 439, in _request
resp = self._conn.getresponse()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 1171, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 351, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/lib/python3.4/http/client.py", line 321, in _read_status
raise BadStatusLine(line)
http.client.BadStatusLine: ''
Tried doing
try:
webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver")
except Exception:
webdriver.Chrome("./venv/selenium/webdriver/chromedriver")
The result is two of the same traceback as before, and two chromedriver instances. It seems like this question points to an error in urllib, but it is for a slightly different situation.
