Thursday, March 31, 2005

Quick update on Selenium in Twisted Server mode

Several people experienced problems when trying to follow my "Selenium and Twisted" tutorial. Here are some issues and some workarounds:

1) If you are on a Windows XP machine and, when trying to run google-test-xmlrpc.py, all you see in the SeleniumRunner page in the browser is:

CGI Script Error
Premature end of script headers


then you need to recompile nph-proxy.cgi into nph-proxy.exe by using the PAR utility. Marc Tremblay reported success by using PAR version 0.87 from here.

2) If you are on a Unix-like machine (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD), then you need to modify selenium_server.py to have it use nph-proxy.cgi instead of nph-proxy.exe.

You also need to run "dos2unix" on nph-proxy.cgi in order to convert from DOS line feeds to Unix line feeds.

3) The Twisted-based server doesn't seem to work properly on Windows 2000 Pro machines. Assuming selenium_server.py is running in one command prompt window, then running the google-test-xmlrpc.py script in another window produces this output:

ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
ERROR: Result queue was empty
test complete


I'm not sure what causes this. I suspect the nph-proxy.cgi script is the culprit, but recompiling it into nph-proxy.exe did not solve the problem for me.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

For unix users, I found I had to chmod some cgi files to make them executable before they would run in the twisted server.

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