I am trying to use selenium on Windows. Whenever I run this code:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
options = Options()
path = "C:/Users/User/Webdriver/chromedriver.exe"
driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=path)
driver.get("http://www.python.org")
I get the following error. I don’t really understand the problem. I am not using a proxy or anything like that. Therefore I don't think it is related to my network but I could be completely wrong.
in check_response
raise exception_class(value)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: <HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Network Error</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
<big><strong></strong></big><BR>
</FONT>
<blockquote>
<TABLE border=0 cellPadding=1 width="80%">
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
<big>Network Error (dns_unresolved_hostname)</big>
<BR>
<BR>
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
Your requested host "localhost" could not be resolved by DNS.
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica">
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>
<FONT face="Helvetica" SIZE=2>
<BR>
For assistance, contact your network support team.
</FONT>
</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
</blockquote>
</FONT>
</BODY></HTML>```
This error message...
Your requested host "localhost" could not be resolved by DNS
...implies that as per the DNS entries localhost wasn't resolved properly.
Ensure that hosts file have the following entries:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Incase you are behind a proxy, you may like to:
You can find a detailed discussion in Apache: Your requested host "localhost" could not be resolved by DNS