Unable to Access a website using FirefoxDriver and HtmlUnitDriver

Question

I'm trying to access the website using FirefoxDriver but I'm getting a not a valid url exception

I also tried with HtmlUnitDriver there the website title come back as null

I tied the old and new website on the below


System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Users\\Family\\path to firefox driver\\geckodriver.exe");

//WebDriver driver = HtmlUnitDriver();

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); 

driver.manage().window().maximize();

driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS); 

//this is an old website
//driver.get("https://www.hollywoodbets.net");

//this is a new website
driver.get("https://new.hollywoodbets.net");

System.out.println("WEBSITE TITTLE " + driver.getTitle());

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '22 at 10:23

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The URL you are trying to open blocks access to it for Chrome too.
I tried to open it with regular Chrome browser on my PC even without Selenium.
It presents the following message:

Error 1020 Ray ID: 6d9bdf8b1b729131 • 2022-02-07 10:18:16 UTC
Access denied
What happened?
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.

Cloudflare Ray ID: 6d9bdf8b1b729131 • Your IP: 77.137.69.164 • Performance & security by Cloudflare

Occurs both for https://new.hollywoodbets.net and for https://www.hollywoodbets.net. The former link is actually redirecting to the first one.

answered Feb 07 '22 at 10:23

Prophet

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I'm able to open both websites using a normal browser both Firefox and Chrome both on mobile devices and desktop. Maybe on your site it because you accessing outside of the country South Africa. – rich25 Feb 07 '22 at 11:00
Maybe. I'm not from the SA. – Prophet Feb 07 '22 at 11:01
What could be the possible problem not able to access the website? – rich25 Feb 07 '22 at 11:03
Are you getting `not a valid url exception` error? – Prophet Feb 07 '22 at 11:21
Yes, with FirefoxDriver and with HtmlUnitDriver the website title come back as null. – rich25 Feb 07 '22 at 11:23
That's strange since the `URL` itself appears to be correct – Prophet Feb 07 '22 at 11:24
Maybe they using a security service to prevent automaton on their website. Please recomend someone who can answer. – rich25 Feb 07 '22 at 11:45
As you can see in my answer, the page is blocked by `Cloudflare` at least from my country. I guess it block bots from the local IP addresses as well. – Prophet Feb 07 '22 at 11:47

Unable to Access a website using FirefoxDriver and HtmlUnitDriver

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