Only local connections are allowed Chrome & Seleni

Question

I am using Chrome webdriver 2.23 & Selenium 2.53.1 I have tried a lot but could not come the fix for this issue that whenever i run my selenium script it is giving me error

Starting ChromeDriver 2.23.409699 (49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129) on port 12162 Only local connections are allowed.

Answer 1

I saw this error

Only local connections are allowed

And I updated both the selenium webdriver, and the google-chrome-stable package

webdriver-manager update
zypper install google-chrome-stable

This site reports the latest version of the chrome driver https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/

My working versions are chromedriver 2.41 and google-chrome-stable 68

Answer 2

This is just an informational message. Your issue might be a missmatch between the versions of chromedriver and selenium-server-standalone.

Try with the latest selenium version 3.0, it is working for me.

Please not that for selenium 3.0 you need to specify the driver first and after the selenium server.

With the new selenium, which is 3.0 you should use:

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta2.jar If you are using selenium version below 3.0 you need to reverse the order of selenium with the driver, like:

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium_server.jar

When you are starting the selenium server, open a console in the directory with chromedriver and selenium server and execute the above command.

Answer 3

1. Check the version of your installed Chrome browser.

2. Download the compatible version of ChromeDriver from

   https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/

3. Set the location of the compatible ChromeDriver to:

   System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\your_path\\chromedriver.exe");
   

4. Run the Test again.

It should be good now.

Answer 4

I was able to resolve the problem by following steps: a. upgrade to the latest chrome version, clear the cache and close the chrome browser b. Download latest Selenium 3.0

Answer 5

Here you are a working stack:

Some previous notes:

• If you run selenium in a non graphical enviromnent, xvfb is required.

• You will need selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar (working version). You can download selenium versions here: http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

• You will also need chromedriver v 2.27. Download link: https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

1) Run sudo Xvfb :10 -ac &

2) Run export DISPLAY=:10

3) Run java -jar "YOUR_PATH_TO/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar" -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="YOUR_PATH_TO/chromedriver.2.27" -Dwebdriver.chrome.whitelistedIps="localhost"

Answer 6

C#:

    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

    options.AddArgument("C:/Users/username/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Interaris.Test/Interaris.Tes/bin/Debug/chromedriver.exe");

    ChromeDriver chrome = new ChromeDriver(options);

Worked for me.