Chrome opens with "Data;" with selenium

Question

I am a newbie to Selenium and trying to open localhost:3000 page from Chrome via selenium driver. The code is :

import com.google.common.base.Function;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
public class SeleniumTests {

    public static void main(String[] args) {


        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://chromedriver_win32//chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();              
        driver.get("localhost:3000");
    }

}

However, this opens my chrome window with a "data;" . The chrome version is 50.0.2661.94

Any idea what is the exact issue?

Answer 1

Specify the protocol you are using, so instead of localhost:3000, use http://localhost:3000. If that doesn't help, see the comment here on the Chromium issue tracker.