The goto method waits for IE to response "complete, idle" before
continuing ... so yes, there must be *something* in the page that is
making IE say "complete, working" instead .
j.
On 12/15/05, Durk Strooisma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The issue:
>
> I need to test an internal website. Regarding this specific task, watir
> seems to be the perfect tool. It works great, but with this particular
> website, I'm already stuck at loading its homepage. What happens is that I'm
> opening the homepage of the website by calling "<IE-object>.goto("<URL>")",
> the homepage seems to be loaded, but the lines after the "goto"-statement
> aren't processed and the testscript seems to wait forever.
>
> Possible cause:
>
> It seems that the "goto"-method of the IE-instance is waiting forever.
> Probably it never gets the signal that the website is completely loaded.
> Although it looks like the website IS completely loaded - all content is
> shown and IE doesn't show any "in progress" indicators - I guess IE still
> waits for something to finish. As this website is entirely bloated with
> (obfuscated) JavaScript, I don't consider it impossible that there somewhere
> a bug in those scripts (like endless loops) that make IE think the website
> is still loading. Or maybe it's just that IE can't handle all the JavaScript
> mess and fails to report the corrent message.
>
> I didn't debug the JavaScript-code because most of it is (hardly) unreadable.
>
> Solution?
>
> Before I start to develop a very hackerish work-around, I'm wondering if
> more people encounter problems with hanging "goto"-statements in Ruby/Watir.
> If so, how do you handle these issues?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Durk
>
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