Only local connections are allowed Chrome and Selenium webdriver

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I am using Chrome webdriver 2 23  amp  Selenium 2 53 1   I have tried a lot  but could not get it fixed  Whenever I run my selenium script  it is giving me the following error   Starting ChromeDriver 2 23 409699  49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129  on port 12162 Only local connections are allowed

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For me  updating the chromedriver and selenium version removed this message   However  this is not an actual error and just an informational message  If your program is still passing with exit code 0 at the end even when this message is printed  it means the execution went fine

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First off  What you are seeing is not an error  It is an informational message   When you run this driver  it will enable your scripts to access this and run commands on Google Chrome    This can be done via scripts running in the local network  Only local connections are allowed   or via scripts running on outside networks  All remote connections are allowed    It is always safer to use the Local Connection option  By default your Chromedriver is accessible via port 9515   See this answer if you wish to allow all connections instead of just local     If your Chromedriver only shows the above two messages  as per the question   then there is a problem  It has to show a message like this  which says it started successfully   Starting ChromeDriver 83 0 4103 39  ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs branch-heads 4103   416   on port 9515 Only local connections are allowed  Please see https   chromedriver chromium org security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe  ChromeDriver was started successfully    To troubleshoot this     Step 1  Check your Chromedriver version    chromedriver --version  ChromeDriver 83 0 4103 39  ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs branch-heads 4103   416     My version is 83 0 4103 39   Step 2  Check your Chrome Browser version  Open Google Chrome    Options -- gt  Help -- gt  About Google Chrome     Or open a terminal and run the following command  works on Ubuntu      google-chrome --version  Google Chrome 83 0 4103 61   My version is  Version 83 0 4103 61  Step 3  Compare versions of Chromedriver and Google Chrome  Both these versions are starting with 83  which means they are both compatible  Hence  you should see a message like below  when you run the below command      chromedriver   Starting ChromeDriver 83 0 4103 39  ccbf011cb2d2b19b506d844400483861342c20cd-refs branch-heads 4103   416   on port 9515 Only local connections are allowed  Please see https   chromedriver chromium org security-considerations for suggestions on keeping ChromeDriver safe  ChromeDriver was started successfully     If your versions mismatch  then you will see the following message  You will not see the line which says  ChromeDriver was started successfully      chromedriver  Starting ChromeDriver 80 0 3987 106  f68069574609230cf9b635cd784cfb1bf81bb53a-refs branch-heads 3987   882   on port 9515 Only local connections are allowed  Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code    Step 4  Download the correct version of Chromedriver  Download the correct version that matches your browser version  Use this page for downloads  After you download  extract the content  and move it to one of the following two folders  Open each of the following two folders and see whether your current Chromedriver is there  If it is on both folders  replace both  And do STEP 3 again    usr bin chromedriver  usr local bin chromedriver

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You need to pass --whitelisted-ips  into chrome driver  not chrome    If you use ChromeDriver locally directly  not using RemoteWebDriver  from code  it shouldn t be your problem  If you use it remotely  eg  selenium hub grid  you need to set system property when node starts  like in command  java -Dwebdriver chrome whitelistedIps  testClass etc     or docker by passing JAVA OPTS env   chrome      image  selenium node-chrome 3 141 59     container name  chrome     depends on        - selenium-hub     environment        - HUB HOST selenium-hub       - HUB PORT 4444       - JAVA OPTS -Dwebdriver chrome whitelistedIps

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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

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I followed my frnd suggestion and it worked like a gem for me   Working Code   1  Downloaded chromedriver   2  Code is  import org openqa selenium WebDriver   import org openqa selenium chrome ChromeDriver   public class Sel     public static void main String   args           TODO Auto-generated method stub     System setProperty  webdriver chrome driver    C   Users  Downloads  chromedriver win32  chromedriver exe       path of chromedriver      WebDriver driver   new ChromeDriver           driver get  https   google ca          driver manage   window   maximize          driver getTitle

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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

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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

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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

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Check the version of your installed Chrome browser   Download the compatible version of ChromeDriver from https   sites google com a chromium org chromedriver   Set the location of the compatible ChromeDriver to   System setProperty  quot webdriver chrome driver quot    quot C   Users  your path  chromedriver exe quot      Run the Test again    It should be good now

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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  amp   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

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Sorry for late post but still for info I also facing same problem so I Used updated version of chromedriver ie 2 28 for updated chrome browser ie  55 to 57 which resolved my problem

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I was also getting the same issue  I resolved this issue by updating the chromedriver  So if anyone is facing same issue with chrome browser just update your chromedriver

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