Selenium remote connection refused using Python splinter

Question

I'm trying out splinter for browser testing. Unfortunately it seems like it can't connect to the website. The website opens fine in the browser when done manually.

Have I forgotten something? I followed the examples on the splinter documentation website.

My python code:

from splinter import Browser

with Browser() as browser:
    browser.visit("http://some-ip")

if browser.is_element_present_by_name("hour"):    
    browser.find_by_name("hour").fill("13")
else:
    print "No hour element"

Error message when running the script:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "browser-test.py", line 6, in <module>
    if browser.is_element_present_by_name("hour"):    
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/__init__.py", line 261, in is_element_present_by_name
    return self.is_element_present(self.find_by_name, name, wait_time)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/__init__.py", line 229, in is_element_present
    if finder(selector):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/__init__.py", line 369, in find_by_name
    return self.find_by(self.driver.find_elements_by_name, name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/__init__.py", line 350, in find_by
    elements = finder(selector)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 314, in find_elements_by_name
    return self.find_elements(by=By.NAME, value=name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 677, in find_elements
    {'using': by, 'value': value})['value']
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 171, in execute
    response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 349, in execute
    return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 379, in _request
    self._conn.request(method, parsed_url.path, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 973, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1007, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 969, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 829, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 791, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 772, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 571, in create_connection
    raise err
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

Can you include a specific URL that causes the problem? The error message is kind of generic; it doesn't really say anything more than that the client was unable to make a connection, so it's going to take some additional information to figure this out; unfortunately I couldn't say offhand _what_ additional information will be the key. — David Z, Apr 21 '15 at 09:54
The url is a local network IP address. I'm running python on a virtual ubuntu, and I also checked that the website is acccessible from a browser in the virtual machine and it works fine. — KMK, Apr 21 '15 at 10:36
This might be a sympton of a browser bug - sometimes browser (auto) updates break Selenium compatibility. I suggest try out different browsers and phantomjs driver before the final verdict . — Mikko Ohtamaa, Apr 21 '15 at 10:57

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '15 at 12:25

Turned out to be an indentation error - stupid me. I made this answer in case anyone else makes the same mistake.

from splinter import Browser

with Browser() as browser:
    browser.visit("http://some-ip")

    if browser.is_element_present_by_name("hour"):    
        browser.find_by_name("hour").fill("13")
    else:
        print "No hour element"

Selenium remote connection refused using Python splinter

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