Selenium – How to set up Selenium to work with Visual Studio .NET using C#

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I tried to google, but there are many different ways to work with Selenium. I'm using:
– Windows 2003 Server
– Visual Studio 2008
– Selenium IDE installed through Firefox
– NUnit 2.5 is copied into C:\
– Selenium RC is copied into C:\

  1. First I created a Library Project using C#.
  2. And this my class :
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Selenium;

namespace SeleniumTest
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class NewTest
    {
        private ISelenium selenium;
        private StringBuilder verificationErrors;

        [SetUp]
        public void SetupTest()
        {
            selenium = new DefaultSelenium( "localhost", 4444, "*iexplore", "http://localhost:4444" );
            selenium.Start();
            verificationErrors = new StringBuilder();
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void TeardownTest()
        {
            try
            {
                selenium.Stop();
            }
            catch( Exception )
            {
                // Ignore errors if unable to close the browser
            }
            Assert.AreEqual( "", "" );
        }

        [Test]
        public void TheNewTest()
        {
            selenium.Open( "/google.com" );
        }
    }
}
  1. Next add all references from the C:\Selenium RC\selenium-dotnet-client-driver-1.0.1
  2. Compiled the Library Project, succeeded. No errors.
  3. Run NUnit.exe, now errors 🙁

SeleniumTest.NewTest.TheNewTest:
Selenium.SeleniumException : XHR
ERROR: URL =
http://localhost:4444/google.com
Response_Code = 403 Error_Message =
Forbidden+for+Proxy

Best Answer

You are getting the Forbidden error because you are setting the baseURL to that of Selenium RC. You need to set it to http://www.google.com and then in your test would look like 

    [Test]
    public void TheNewTest()
    {
        selenium.Open( "/" );
    }

or you need to change your test to

    [Test]
    public void TheNewTest()
    {
        selenium.Open( "http://www.google.com" );
    }
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