Bug #127973 for WWW-Mechanize-Chrome: Internal Exception

Sat Dec 08 11:50:45 2018 tom.moreau [...] live.ca - Ticket created

Subject:	Internal Exception
Date:	Sat, 8 Dec 2018 16:50:12 +0000
To:	"bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Tom Moreau <tom.moreau [...] live.ca>

I am trying to run the sendkeys.pl example script to Google: #!perl -w use strict; use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy); use WWW::Mechanize::Chrome; my $mech = WWW::Mechanize::Chrome->new(); $mech->get( 'https://google.com' ); $mech->sendkeys( string => "test\r" ); $mech->sleep( 10 ); I get: error when connectingInternal Exception at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 698. Running on Windows 10 with Strawberry PERL. Tom Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS Cambridge, ON Canada tom.moreau@live.ca<mailto:tom.moreau@live.ca>

Sun Dec 09 12:56:22 2018 corion [...] corion.net - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #127973] Internal Exception
Date:	Sun, 9 Dec 2018 18:56:00 +0100
To:	bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Max Maischein <corion [...] corion.net>

Hello Tom, Show quoted text

> I am trying to run the sendkeys.pl example script to Google:> > I get: > > error when connectingInternal Exception at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 698. > > Running on Windows 10 with Strawberry PERL. >

Thank you very much for the bug report. It seems that this problem does not happen when you have no instance of Google Chrome open or run a separate chrome.exe (specified via $ENV{CHROME_BIN} for example). So, as a workaround, you can maybe specify the Chrome.exe to use. But still, this shouldn't happen and WWW::Mechanize::Chrome should be able to reuse an existing/running Chrome process and connect to it. I'll have to investigate what leads to this state. -max

Sun Dec 09 12:56:22 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Dec 10 15:52:29 2018 tom.moreau [...] live.ca - Correspondence added

Subject:	RE: [rt.cpan.org #127973] Internal Exception
Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:52:11 +0000
To:	"bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	Tom Moreau <tom.moreau [...] live.ca>

Max, Thanx for this. That worked. I have a follow-up problem. When I add the following line: print $mech->text(); ... I get the following: Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Node has gone away in the meantime, could not resolve at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 3105. Can't call method "_generation" on an undefined value at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome/Node.pm line 120. Tom Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS Cambridge, ON Canada tom.moreau@live.ca Show quoted text

-----Original Message----- From: Max Maischein via RT <bug-WWW-Mechanize-Chrome@rt.cpan.org> Sent: 9-Dec-18 12:56 To: tom.moreau@live.ca Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #127973] Internal Exception <URL: https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frt.cpan.org%2FTicket%2FDisplay.html%3Fid%3D127973&data=02%7C01%7C%7C28c654f7bfca41a6c26c08d65dffa213%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636799749842225295&sdata=YWiQfEF1kMMmN7S6gfAcJhBMdmEMzAsrkDh70EKRWwk%3D&reserved=0 > Hello Tom,

> I am trying to run the sendkeys.pl example script to Google:> I get: > > error when connectingInternal Exception at D:/Strawberry/perl/site/lib/WWW/Mechanize/Chrome.pm line 698. > > Running on Windows 10 with Strawberry PERL. >

Thank you very much for the bug report. It seems that this problem does not happen when you have no instance of Google Chrome open or run a separate chrome.exe (specified via $ENV{CHROME_BIN} for example). So, as a workaround, you can maybe specify the Chrome.exe to use. But still, this shouldn't happen and WWW::Mechanize::Chrome should be able to reuse an existing/running Chrome process and connect to it. I'll have to investigate what leads to this state. -max

Sat Sep 28 18:54:17 2019 corion [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sat Sep 28 18:54:17 2019 corion [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.36 added