Recently I was struggling with an error message caused by the not opened firewall between Robot executing computer and the server hosting the website.
"WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: net::ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT"
So the straightforward solution is to fetch the public and/or private IP address of the machine hosting robot tests to do a proper firewall opening on port 80/443.
You can do it by following block which will print output to the console.
| *** Settings *** | |
| Library Selenium2Library | |
| Library String | |
| *** Variables *** | |
| ${BROWSER} edge | |
| *** Test Cases *** | |
| Network scanning | |
| [Documentation] Print network details of test execution machine | |
| ${ip}= Evaluate [l for l in ([ip for ip in socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname())[2] if not ip.startswith("127.")][:1], [[(s.connect(('8.8.8.8', 53)), s.getsockname()[0], s.close()) for s in [socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)]][0][1]]) if l][0][0] socket | |
| Log To Console Private IP is: ${ip} | |
| Open Browser http://api.hostip.info/get_json.php ${BROWSER} | |
| ${ippublic}= Get Text //html/body/pre #get the IP address text | |
| Log To Console Public networking details are: ${ippublic} | |
| Close Browser |
If it's hard to read, use this GitHub Gist with the same code. And that is all what was needed to do.
Here is how the output is looking like:
