MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool: Max retries exceeded (Caused by ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(111, 'Connection refused')))

Question

I have one question:I want to test "select" and "input".can I write it like the code below: original code:

 12 class Sinaselecttest(unittest.TestCase):
 13 
 14     def setUp(self):
 15         binary = FirefoxBinary('/usr/local/firefox/firefox')
 16         self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary)
 17 
 18     def test_select_in_sina(self):
 19         driver = self.driver
 20         driver.get("https://www.sina.com.cn/")
 21         try:
 22             WebDriverWait(driver,30).until(
 23                 ec.visibility_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"/html/body/div[9]/div/div[1]/form/div[3]/input"))
 24             )
 25         finally:
 26             driver.quit()
 # #测试select功能
 27         select=Select(driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[@id='slt_01']")).select_by_value("微博")
 28         element=driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[9]/div/div[1]/form/div[3]/input")
 29         element.send_keys("杨幂")
 30         driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[9]/div/div[1]/form/input").click()
 31         driver.implicitly_wait(5)

 32    def tearDown(self):
 33        self.driver.close()

I want to test Selenium "select" function.so I choose sina website to select one option and input text in textarea.then search it .but when I run this test,it has error:

 Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "test_sina_select.py", line 32, in tearDown
        self.driver.close()
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 688, in close
        self.execute(Command.CLOSE)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 319, in execute
        response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 376, in execute
        return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 399, in _request
        resp = self._conn.request(method, url, body=body, headers=headers)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 68, in request
        **urlopen_kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 81, in request_encode_url
        return self.urlopen(method, url, **urlopen_kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/poolmanager.py", line 247, in urlopen
        response = conn.urlopen(method, u.request_uri, **kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 617, in urlopen
        release_conn=release_conn, **response_kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 617, in urlopen
        release_conn=release_conn, **response_kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 617, in urlopen
        release_conn=release_conn, **response_kw)
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 597, in urlopen
        _stacktrace=sys.exc_info()[2])
      File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 271, in increment
        raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))
    MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=51379): Max retries exceeded with url: /session/2e64d2a1-3c7f-4221-96fe-9d0b1c102195/window (Caused by ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(111, 'Connection refused')))
    
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Ran 1 test in 72.106s

who can tell me why?thanks

Answer 1

This error message...

MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=51379): Max retries exceeded with url: /session/2e64d2a1-3c7f-4221-96fe-9d0b1c102195/window (Caused by ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(111, 'Connection refused')))

...implies that the call to self.driver.close() method failed raising MaxRetryError.

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A couple of things:

• First and foremost as per the discussion max-retries-exceeded exceptions are confusing the traceback is somewhat misleading. Requests wraps the exception for the users convenience. The original exception is part of the message displayed.

• Requests never retries (it sets the retries=0 for urllib3's HTTPConnectionPool), so the error would have been much more canonical without the MaxRetryError and HTTPConnectionPool keywords. So an ideal Traceback would have been:

    ConnectionError(<class 'socket.error'>: [Errno 1111] Connection refused)
  

• But again @sigmavirus24 in his comment mentioned ...wrapping these exceptions make for a great API but a poor debugging experience...

• Moving forward the plan was to traverse as far downwards as possible to the lowest level exception and use that instead.

• Finally this issue was fixed by rewording some exceptions which has nothing to do with the actual connection refused error.

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Solution

Even before self.driver.close() within tearDown(self) is invoked, the try{} block within test_select_in_sina(self) includes finally{} where you have invoked driver.quit()which is used to call the /shutdown endpoint and subsequently the web driver & the client instances are destroyed completely closing all the pages/tabs/windows. Hence no more connection exists.

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussion in:

• PhantomJS web driver stays in memory
• Selenium : How to stop geckodriver process impacting PC memory, without calling driver.quit()?

In such a situation when you invoke self.driver.close() the python client is unable to locate any active connection to initiate a clousure. Hence you see the error.

So a simple solution would be to remove the line driver.quit() i.e. remove the finally block.

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tl; dr

As per the Release Notes of Selenium 3.14.1:

* Fix ability to set timeout for urllib3 (#6286)

The Merge is: repair urllib3 can't set timeout!

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Conclusion

Once you upgrade to Selenium 3.14.1 you will be able to set the timeout and see canonical Tracebacks and would be able to take required action.

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References

A couple of relevent references:

• Adding max_retries as an argument
• Removed the bundled charade and urllib3.
• Third party libraries committed verbatim