How to open local html file by Selenium Safari WebDriver on macOS?

Question

I have tried:

safariDriver.get("file:///Users/pathToMyHtml/index.html");
safariDriver.get("/Users/pathToMyHtml/index.html");

but none of them worked. I use Java and macOS Sierra. (If I open a page from http:// it's working)

What is the error? It looks OK on my machine. macOS Sierra 10.12.5 — Buaban, Jul 14 '17 at 15:37
Actually there is no error message. The SafariDriver instantiation works properly. But when I use the get method, it simply doesn't open the local file. — TestAutomator, Jul 15 '17 at 22:16
Can you post full code? On my machine I ran `driver = webdriver.Safari() driver.get('file:///Users/aFolder/500.html')` and it worked properly. — Buaban, Jul 17 '17 at 06:27
Sure. I use this code: SafariOptions options = new SafariOptions(); options.addExtensions(new File("resources/SafariDriver.safariextz")); WebDriver driver = new SafariDriver(); driver.get("file:///Users/myUser/Development/index.html"); The SafariDriver.safariextz is downloaded from here: https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.48/ — TestAutomator, Jul 17 '17 at 08:00
My Safari version is 10.1.1 and I use selenium-java with version: '2.41.0' — TestAutomator, Jul 17 '17 at 08:30
Can you update Selenium to 3.4? I can see the package on [maven](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java). On Selenium 3, you don't need the extension anymore. I think it may solve this issue. — Buaban, Jul 17 '17 at 09:20
I found that this local path reference is unsupported: https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium-google-code-issue-archive/issues/3773 . However I tried 3.4 as you mentioned and it's working now. :) Thanks for your help! — TestAutomator, Jul 17 '17 at 09:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '17 at 09:44

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The root cause is Selenium version. You need to upgrade Selenium to version 3++. It works fine on my machine with Selenium 3.4.

answered Jul 17 '17 at 09:44

Buaban

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