Actually, on second thought, this looks more like a different issue. Are you running on windows vista or 7? If so, you should run ruby as administrator.
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 00:44, Ethan <[email protected]> wrote: > Make sure you have checked "Allow active content to run in files on my > computer". > Go to 'Internet Options' (under Tools in IE) -> Advanced -> scroll down to > 'Security' heading. > > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 19:18, joedio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> # >> # Watir fails to get url for a file on the local file system, but not >> for same file on server >> # even though both files are the same, only difference is one is >> hosted is on server >> # while the other is on local file system. Both files load OK into the >> browser. >> >> require 'rubygems' >> require 'watir' >> >> sServerURL = "http://myserver.com/html/bug.html"; >> sLocalURL = "file://C:/bug.html" >> >> browser = Watir::Browser.new >> >> browser.goto(sServerURL) >> sCurrentServerURL = browser.url # <--- THIS WORKS >> puts("Current URL: " + sCurrentServerURL.to_s) >> sleep 2 # Wait long enough to see that the browser loaded the page >> >> browser.goto(sLocalURL) >> sCurrentLocalURL = browser.url # <--- THIS FAILS. Why? >> puts("Current URL: " + sCurrentLocalURL.to_s) >> sleep 2 # Wait long enough to see that the browser loaded the page >> browser.close >> >> ###### Here's the contents of the file: >> >> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> >> <html> >> <head> >> <title>Watir URL Bug</title> >> </head> >> <body> >> Why is this bug occuring? >> </body> >> </html> >> >> >> >> ##### Here's the error: >> >> >ruby bug.rb >> Current URL: http://home.comcast.net/~watirworks/html/bug.html >> c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie-class.rb: >> 465:in `method_missing': unknown property or method >> `LocationURL' (WIN32OLERuntimeError) >> HRESULT error code:0x80010108 >> The object invoked has disconnected from its clients. from c:/ >> ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.5/lib/watir/ie-class.rb:465:in >> `url' >> from bug.rb:33 >> >Exit code: 1 >> >> -- >> Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search >> before you ask, be nice. >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to >> http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general >> To post: [email protected] >> To unsubscribe: >> [email protected]<watir-general%[email protected]> >> > > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. You received this message because you are subscribed to http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected]
