[wtr-general] ie.goto never returns. Page never loads.

2009-10-06 Thread llemirtrauts
Hi, I'm pretty new to Watir and I'm having an intermittent problem with scripts hanging when a web page doesn't fully load. I'm trying to run:- Watir::IE.start(http://www.igindex.co.uk;) This sometimes works but sometimes the the start method doesn't return and the script simply hangs

[wtr-general] Re: ie.goto never returns. Page never loads.

2009-10-09 Thread llemirtrauts
Many thanks for your reply karim. I'm not sure that the information on this link helps. This page indicates how to wait if Watir doesn't explicitly wait. I want to explicitly NOT wait for a page to finish loading, because in essence the page 'never' loads fully due to the continuous http

[wtr-general] Re: ie.goto never returns. Page never loads.

2009-10-09 Thread llemirtrauts
I found this in a different thread. It suggests running goto in a different thread, then sleeping for a few seconds until its likely to have loaded. Its not ideal, but it works:- -- Forwarded message -- From: LFIdnl sraniim...@gmail.com Date: Dec 10 2008, 7:33 am Subject: Modal