I'm running into the exception below when I try to take an action on my primary tab while an alert is open on another tab,
I should note that closing the alert using *browser.windows.last.use { browser.alert.close }* avoids the problem but would require me to be aware of the alert beforehand. Checking on each tab would not be practical as each would need to timeout should an alert be open on a different tab. Is there anything I'm missing? Is this a Watir issue? Either way, can anyone advise on how I should proceed? Thanks! *Stacktrace:* C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/protocol.rb:158:in `rbuf_fill': Net::ReadTimeout (Net::ReadTimeout) from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/protocol.rb:136:in `readuntil' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/protocol.rb:146:in `readline' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http/response.rb:40:in `read_status_line' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http/response.rb:29:in `read_new' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1437:in `block in transport_request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1434:in `catch' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1434:in `transport_request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1407:in `request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1400:in `block in request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:853:in `start' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/2.3.0/net/http.rb:1398:in `request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:124:in `response_for' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:78:in `request' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:63:in `call' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:645:in `raw_execute' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:623:in `execute' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:157:in `alert_text' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/alert.rb:27:in `initialize' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/target_locator.rb:107:in `new' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/selenium-webdriver-3.0.5/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/target_locator.rb:107:in `alert' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/watir-webdriver-0.9.3/lib/watir-webdriver/alert.rb:98:in `assert_exists' from C:/Ruby23/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/watir-webdriver-0.9.3/lib/watir-webdriver/alert.rb:80:in `exists?' from test_timeout.rb:26:in `alert_test' from test_timeout.rb:29:in `<main>' * Script to replicate:* require 'watir' def alert_test url = 'http://bit.ly/watir-example' browser = Watir::Browser.new(:chrome) browser.goto url browser.text_field(name: "entry.1000000").wait_until_present # Add link opening new tab script = "var a = document.createElement('a');" \ "a.setAttribute('href', '#{url}');"\ "a.setAttribute('target', '_blank');"\ "a.innerHTML = '#{url}';"\ "document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(a);"; browser.execute_script(script) browser.link(text: url).when_present.click # Open alert in second tab browser.windows.last.use do browser.execute_script("alert()") end browser.alert.present? end alert_test -- -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. watir-general@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to watir-general+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.