i don't think that there's any way to do that directly from watir.you'd probably have to invoke it from dos and then attach to the new window. obviously you'd need to figure out which window to attach to.
i think someone suggested VM as the solution. It might be easier to set up multiple VM instances. ________________________________ From: Barry <[email protected]> To: Watir General <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 10:01 AM Subject: [wtr-general] Re: watir::IE multiple windows always connect to same session Can IE 'runas' be invoked from watir? On Jan 9, 11:55 am, John Fitisoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the windows 'runas' command might let you do this but it requires a > little work to set it up. See the article here (the part at the very bottom): > > http://ask.metafilter.com/50999/me-want-two-cookies > > Caveat: I haven't tried these instructions. I think I got something working > briefly back in 2007 but I ended up not using it as I didn't need to test > something like a shopping cart. > > ________________________________ > From: Barry <[email protected]> > To: Watir General <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 9, 2012 8:16 AM > Subject: [wtr-general] Re: watir::IE multiple windows always connect to same > session > > Thanks for your reply. > > If I open multiple IE windows manually, they will share the same > cookie. This is the case also for Firefox. However, if I use watir- > webdriver, the multiple Firefox windows opened by watir-webdriver do > not share the cookie. This is why I am confused. I didn't try IE in > watir-webdriver because it gives me errors when clicking a button. > > Also, people talk about the difference of Watir::IE.new and > Watir::IE.start or start_process. These functions are for Watir, not > Watir-webdriver. From my understanding, start_process() should open > different sessions. > > So I am wondering if other people could open IE windows in a way as > watir-webdriver for Firefox. > > Barry > > On Jan 9, 2:58 am, Chuck van der Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > if you open multiple IE sessions manually do they share cookies? if > > so this is a fundimental IE thing and there's not much we are likely > > to be able to do about it. > > > On Jan 8, 12:09 pm, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Nobody has this problem? All your IE windows have different sessions > > > with watir? > > > > Barry > > > > On Jan 6, 10:34 pm, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I tried to open two IE windows at the same time. In watir-webdriver, > > > > Firefox alway open them in seperate session. But in Watir, the two IE > > > > windows share the same cookie. For example, the shopping cart is > > > > shared. How can I keep the shopping carts seperated? I tried > > > > new_process, open_process, start, new. But all didn't work. > > > > > require "watir" > > > > browser = Watir::IE.new > > > > browser.goto(link) > > > > ..... > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > Barry- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search before > you ask, be nice. > > [email protected]http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > [email protected] > > -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected] -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
