Difference between webdriver get and webdriver navigate

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What is the difference between get   and navigate   methods  Does any of this or maybe another method waits for page content to load  What do I really need is something like Selenium 1 0 s WaitForPageToLoad but for using via webdriver    Any suggestions

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navigate   to   and get   will work same when you use for the first time  When you use it more than once then using navigate   to   you can come to the previous page at any time whereas you can do the same using get      Conclusion  navigate   to   holds the entire history of the current window and get   just reload the page and hold any history

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Otherwise you prob want the get method   Load a new web page in the current browser window  This is done using an HTTP GET operation  and the method will block until the load is complete    Navigate allows you to work with browser history as far as i understand it

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driver get     It s used to go to the particular website   But it doesn t maintain the browser History and cookies so   we can t use forward and backward button   if we click on that   page will not get schedule   driver navigate     it s used to go to the particular website   but it maintains the browser history and cookies  so we can use forward and backward button to navigate between the pages during the coding of Testcase

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They both seems to navigate to the given webpage and quoting  matt answer      navigate   to   and get   do exactly the same thing    Single-Page Applications are an exception to this   The difference between these two methods comes not from their behavior  but from the behavior in the way the application works and how browser deal with it   navigate   to   navigates to the page by changing the URL like doing forward backward navigation   Whereas  get   refreshes the page to changing the URL   So  in cases where application domain changes  both the method behaves similarly  That is  page is refreshed in both the cases  But  in single-page applications  while navigate   to   do not refreshes the page  get   do   Moreover  this is the reason browser history is getting lost when get   is used due to application being refreshed   Originally answered  https   stackoverflow com a 33868976 3619412

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Both perform the same function but driver get    seems more popular   driver navigate   to    is best used when you are already in the middle of a script and you want to redirect from current URL to a new one  For the sake of differentiating your codes  you can use driver get   to launch the first URL after opening a browser instance  albeit both will work either way

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To get a better understanding on it  one must see the architecture of Selenium WebDriver    Just visit https   github com SeleniumHQ selenium wiki JsonWireProtocol  and search for  Navigate to a new URL   text  You will see both methods GET and POST   Hence the conclusion given below   driver get   method internally sends Get request to Selenium Server Standalone  Whereas driver navigate   method sends Post request to Selenium Server Standalone    Hope it helps

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CASE-1     In the below code I navigated to 3 different URLs and when the execution comes to navigate command  it navigated back to facebook home page   public class FirefoxInvoke                    Test                 public static void browserInvoke                                         System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver    gecko-driver-path                    WebDriver driver new FirefoxDriver                    System out println  Before  driver getTitle                     driver get  http   www google com                    driver get  http   www facebook com                    driver get  http   www india com                    driver navigate   back                    driver quit                                       public static void main String   args                           TODO Auto-generated method stub             browserInvoke                                       CASE-2   In below code  I have used navigate   instead of get    but both the snippets Case-1 and Case-2  are working exactly the same  just the case-2 execution time is less than of case-1  public class FirefoxInvoke                    Test                 public static void browserInvoke                                         System setProperty  webdriver gecko driver    gecko-driver-path                    WebDriver driver new FirefoxDriver                    System out println  Before  driver getTitle                     driver navigate   to  http   www google com                    driver navigate   to  http   www facebook com                    driver navigate   to  http   www india com                    driver navigate   back                    driver quit                                       public static void main String   args                           TODO Auto-generated method stub             browserInvoke                                        So the main difference between get   and navigate   is  both are performing the same task but with the use of navigate   you can move back   or forward   in your session s history  navigate   is faster than get   because navigate   does not wait for the page to load fully or completely

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Navigating The first thing you   ll want to do with WebDriver is navigate to a page  The normal way to do this is by calling get  driver get  quot http   www google com quot     WebDriver will wait until the page has fully loaded  that is  the onload event has fired  before returning control to your test or script  It   s worth noting that if your page uses a lot of AJAX on load then WebDriver may not know when it has completely loaded  If you need to ensure such pages are fully loaded then you can use waits  Navigation  History and Location Earlier  we covered navigating to a page using the get command  driver get  quot http   www example com quot    As you   ve seen  WebDriver has a number of smaller  task-focused interfaces  and navigation is a useful task  Because loading a page is such a fundamental requirement  the method to do this lives on the main WebDriver interface  but it   s simply a synonym to  driver navigate   to  quot http   www example com quot     To reiterate  navigate   to   and get   do exactly the same thing  One s just a lot easier to type than the other  The navigate interface also exposes the ability to move backwards and forwards in your browser   s history  driver navigate   forward    driver navigate   back       Emphasis added

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For what it s worth  from my IE9 testing  it looks like there s a difference for URLs that contain a hashbang  a single page app  in my case    http   www example com page   The driver get  http   www example com anotherpage   method is handled by the browser as a fragment identifier and JavaScript variables are retained from the previous URL   While  the navigate   to  http   www example com anotherpage   method is handled by the browser as a address location URL bar input and JavaScript variables are not retained from the previous URL

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As per the javadoc for get    it is the synonym for Navigate to    View javadoc screenshot below     Javadoc for get   says it all -     Load a new web page in the current browser window  This is done using   an HTTP GET operation  and the method will block until the load is   complete  This will follow redirects issued either by the server or as   a meta-redirect from within the returned HTML  Should a meta-redirect    rest  for any duration of time  it is best to wait until this timeout   is over  since should the underlying page change whilst your test is   executing the results of future calls against this interface will be   against the freshly loaded page  Synonym for   org openqa selenium WebDriver Navigation to String

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Not sure it applies here also but in the case of protractor when using navigate   to      the history is being kept but when using get   it is lost   One of my test was failing because I was using get   2 times in a row and then doing a navigate   back    Because the history was lost  when going back it went to the about page and an error was thrown   Error  Error while waiting for Protractor to sync with the page

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There are some differences between webdriver get   and webdriver navigate   method   get   As per the API Docs get   method in the WebDriver interface extends the SearchContext and is defined as         Load a new web page in the current browser window  This is done using an HTTP POST operation     and the method will block until the load is complete     This will follow redirects issued either by the server or as a meta-redirect from within the    returned HTML     Synonym for   link org openqa selenium WebDriver Navigation to String        void get String url          Usage  driver get  quot https   www google com  quot        navigate   On the other hand  navigate   is the abstraction which allows the WebDriver instance i e  the driver to access the browser s history as well as to navigate to a given URL  The methods along with the usage are as follows   to java lang String url   Load a new web page in the current browser window  driver navigate   to  quot https   www google com  quot      to java net URL url   Overloaded version of to String  that makes it easy to pass in a URL   refresh    Refresh the current page  driver navigate   refresh      back    Move back a single  quot item quot  in the browser s history  driver navigate   back      forward    Move a single  quot item quot  forward in the browser s history  driver navigate   forward

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driver get   is used to navigate particular URL website  and wait till page load   driver navigate   is used to navigate to particular URL and does not wait to page load  It maintains browser history or cookies to navigate back or forward

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driver get url  and navigate to url  both are used to go to particular web page  The key difference is that  driver get url   It does not maintain the browser history and cookies and wait till page fully loaded  driver navigate to url  It is also used to go to particular web page it maintain browser history and cookies and does not wait till page fully loaded and have navigation between the pages back  forward and refresh

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