In Selenium IDE, how to get the value of the base url

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Emilien picture Emilien · Feb 4, 2010 · Viewed 25.8k times · Source

Is it possible to retrieve the value of the base url from inside a Selenium script (a plain HTML-saved script from Selenium IDE)?

What I'm trying to do is verify the current url using assertLocation. But assertLocation returns the absolute url. I would like to compare the current url to a relative url without having to use an * at the start of the url.

I'd like to have access to the base string because I want to be able to run the tests on different sites (various dev sites + production site), but if I use the * I can not check for the root page (*/ would be true for each page that ends with a /...)

This is what I currently do:

|assertLocation | */some-page | |

This is what I'd like to do:

|assertLocation | baseURL + "/some-page" | |

Note: is it even possible to:

  1. use a variable in the target;
  2. concatenate a variable and a string?

Answer

s_hewitt picture s_hewitt · Feb 4, 2010

Try this

storeEval|window.document.domain|host
assertLocation|http://${host}/some-page|

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