From inside of a Docker container, how can I use selenium and webdriver to access the localhost server running at http://127.0.0.1:8090/?

Question

I am writing selenium python tests on a docker image. Currently I have a server running on localhost using url http://127.0.0.1:8090/ How can I use selenium to access my localhost chrome browser. This is the code I have written, however it is not connecting my docker image to my localhost.

from selenium import webdriver
chrome_path = r"/exabgp/chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_path)
driver.get("http://127.0.0.1:8090/")
driver.find_element_by_xpath("""//{*0id="sss0"}/li/{19}/a***).click()

Possible duplicate of [From inside of a Docker container, how do I connect to the localhost of the machine?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24319662/from-inside-of-a-docker-container-how-do-i-connect-to-the-localhost-of-the-mach) — eLRuLL, Sep 01 '17 at 02:04

Tarun Lalwani · Answer 1 · 2017-09-02T07:43:22.130

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You can use solutions mentioned in From inside of a Docker container, how do I connect to the localhost of the machine?

Or

When you run your container use --add-host

docker run --add-host `myapp:<IPOfyourAppServer>` ....

And then in your code use

driver.get("http://myapp:8090/")

Edit-1

If you are using docker-compose, you need to use extra_hosts options

services:
  myapp:
    extra_hosts:
      - "myapp:192.168.0.10"

edited Sep 02 '17 at 07:43

answered Sep 01 '17 at 09:24

Tarun Lalwani

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Thank you very much for the solution. The problem I have is that my infrastructure uses docker-compose so I'm not sure how to link my docker-compose to run --add-host `myapp:` .... – Max Copley Sep 02 '17 at 07:39
@MaxCopley, if this works for you, can accept this as an answer? – Tarun Lalwani Sep 04 '17 at 07:33
Hi Tarun, the fix to the solution was running docker containers in non sandbox mode and also setting the privileged mode boolean to true. Thank you for the suggestion Tarun. – Max Copley Sep 06 '17 at 01:43
What did you use for non sandbox mode? – Tarun Lalwani Sep 06 '17 at 05:21
@MaxCopley Do you mind extending your answer above? I have a similar issue. – Benjamin Scholtz Jun 22 '18 at 13:19

From inside of a Docker container, how can I use selenium and webdriver to access the localhost server running at http://127.0.0.1:8090/?

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