How do I set the selenium webdriver get timeout

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When I am using a proxy in webdriver like FirefoxDriver  if the proxy is bad then the get method will block forever  I set some timeout parameters  but this did not work out   This is my code   FirefoxProfile profile   new FirefoxProfile    profile setPreference  general useragent override   ua       Proxy p   new Proxy    p setHttpProxy proxy   profile setProxyPreferences p   profile setEnableNativeEvents true       create a driver WebDriver driver   new FirefoxDriver profile   driver manage   timeouts   pageLoadTimeout 30  TimeUnit SECONDS   driver manage   timeouts   setScriptTimeout 30  TimeUnit SECONDS   driver get  www sina com cn     The call to driver get will block for ever  but I want it to wait for 30 seconds and if the page is not loaded then throw an exception

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I had the same problem and thanks to this forum and some other found the answer. Initially I also thought of separate thread but it complicates the code a bit. So I tried to find an answer that aligns with my principle "elegance and simplicity".

Please have a look at such forum: https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/2606/what-is-seleniums-default-timeout-for-page-loading

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SOLUTION: In the code, before the line with 'get' method you can use for example:

driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

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One thing is that it throws timeoutException so you have to encapsulate it in the try catch block or wrap in some method.

I haven't found the getter for the pageLoadTimeout so I don't know what is the default value, but probably very high since my script was frozen for many hours and nothing moved forward.

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NOTICE: 'pageLoadTimeout' is NOT implemented for Chrome driver and thus causes exception. I saw by users comments that there are plans to make it.

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The solution of driver manage   timeouts   pageLoadTimeout 10  TimeUnit SECONDS  will work on the pages with synch loading  This does not solve  however  the problem on pages loading stuff in async  then the tests will fail all the time if we set the pageLoadTimeOut

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try   driver executeScript  window location href  http   www sina com cn     this statement will return immediately   And after that   you can add a WebDriverWait with timeout to check if the page title or any element is ok   Hope this will help you

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The timeouts   methods are not implemented in some drivers and are very unreliable in general  I use a separate thread for the timeouts  passing the url to access as the thread name   Thread t   new Thread new Runnable         public void run             driver get Thread currentThread   getName              url   t start    try       t join YOUR TIMEOUT HERE IN MS     catch  InterruptedException e       ignore   if  t isAlive         Thread still alive  we need to abort     logger warning  quot Timeout on loading page  quot    url       t interrupt       This seems to work most of the time  however it might happen that the driver is really stuck and any subsequent call to driver will be blocked  I experience that with Chrome driver on Windows   Even something as innocuous as a driver findElements   call could end up being blocked  Unfortunately I have no solutions for blocked drivers

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I find that the timeout calls are not reliable enough in real life  particularly for internet explorer   however the following solutions may be of help    You can timeout the complete test by using  Test timeout 10000  in the junit test that you are running the selenium process from  This will free up the main thread for executing the other tests  instead of blocking up the whole show  However even this does not work at times  Anyway by timing out you do not intend to salvage the test case  because timing out even a single operation might leave the entire test sequence in inconsistent state  You might just want to proceed with the other testcases without blocking  or perhaps retry the same test again   In such a case a fool-proof method would be to write a poller that polls processes of Webdriver  eg  IEDriverServer exe  Phantomjs exe  running for more than say 10 min and kill them  An example could be found at Automatically identify  and kill  processes with long processing time

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Used below code in similar situation  driver manage   timeouts   pageLoadTimeout 60  TimeUnit SECONDS     and embedded driver get code in a try catch  which solved the issue of loading pages which were taking more than 1 minute

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You can set the timeout on the HTTP Client like this  int connectionTimeout 5000  int socketTimeout 15000  ApacheHttpClient Factory clientFactory   new ApacheHttpClient Factory new HttpClientFactory connectionTimeout  socketTimeout    HttpCommandExecutor executor         new HttpCommandExecutor new HashMap lt String  CommandInfo gt     new URL seleniumServerUrl   clientFactory   RemoteWebDriver driver   new RemoteWebDriver executor  capabilities

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Try this    driver manage   timeouts   implicitlyWait 30  TimeUnit SECONDS

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