getCurrentUrl() protractor tests failing on Internet Explorer 11 (latest)

[elgalu]

I added IE11 to /spec/multiConf.js and I could confirm an IE issue when testing AJAX-changed urls:

Failures:

  1) protractor library should allow a mix of using protractor and using the driver directly
   Message:
     Expected 'http://localhost:8000/index.html' to equal 'http://localhost:8000/index.html#/form'.
   Stacktrace:
     Error: Failed expectation
    at null.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/spec/basic/lib_spec.js:36:11)

  2) protractor library should allow a mix of using protractor and using the driver directly
   Message:
     Expected 'http://localhost:8000/index.html' to equal 'http://localhost:8000/index.html#/repeater'.
   Stacktrace:
     Error: Failed expectation
    at null.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/spec/basic/lib_spec.js:40:11)

Finished in 7.078 seconds
10 tests, 23 assertions, 2 failures

To recreate just run npm test agains IE11

The tests that fails is it('should allow a mix of using protractor and using the driver directly' at /spec/basic/lib_spec.js

I could also recreate on TravisCI - SauceLabs during a PR:
https://travis-ci.org/angular/protractor/builds/24499725#L764

[KasMA1990]

getCurrentUrl also fails for some of us in IE10 ( #132 )

[elgalu]

Thanks @KasMA1990 i think #132 should be reopened then this one be closed as duplicate.

[juliemr]

Thanks for investigating - it's fine to track here and leave the old issue closed.

[juliemr]

Here's an isolated SauceLabs test just looking at the changing URL. You can see from the screenshots that the URL in the browser looks correct, but it's not returning the path: https://saucelabs.com/jobs/36b8bad2d2144e009e9fc84052b8167a

Seems like an IEDriver bug. Let's make a simplified test case and report.

[elgalu]

Right, I agree is an IEDriver bug.

I can also confirm by manually using webdriver JsonWireProtocol, e.g.

http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/sessions
http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/session/6fd6cb88-2d01-4ff5-80fe-ad2b78a0f548/url

Returns an outdated url on IE.
Making the simplified test case + report might take time, for now i'm ok using getLocationAbsUrl()

[elgalu]

If someone feels like putting some time on this, take a look at selenium source:

/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/MiscTest.java

And improve getCurrentUrl() testing cases:

@Test
public void testShouldReportTheCurrentUrlCorrectly() {
  driver.get(pages.simpleTestPage);
  assertTrue(pages.simpleTestPage.equalsIgnoreCase(driver.getCurrentUrl()));

  driver.get(pages.javascriptPage);
  assertTrue(pages.javascriptPage.equalsIgnoreCase(driver.getCurrentUrl()));
}

[MrJH]

Are there any solutions or workarounds for this bug?

[elgalu]

Workaround is using getLocationAbsUrl()

[MrJH]

Ah yes, missed the () ;)

[robertbarfield]

Awesome! You guys saved this guy a big headache with IE. Many thanks and I hope to offer something useful for you in the future.

[smahalingam]

getLocationAbsUrl() - Is supposed to work only on Angular pages ?

[juliemr]

@sjelin can you confirm whether this is still an issue?

[sjelin]

@cnishina windows

[cnishina]

Closing this as not reproducible. Test steps to reproduce:

• Replace Firefox for Internet Explorer in spec/multiConf.js on the master branch.
• Internet explorer version 11.576.14393.0
• Using selenium standalone server 2.53.1, chromedriver 2.26 and IEDriver 32-bit version 2.53.1
• Ran test 10 times. Did not see this error.

[abdulmoizeng]

Hi @cnishina @juliemr
I am still facing this issue on following versions

• IE 10
• IE driver 64 bit ( 3.8.0 recommended version : http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/)

same issue on browser stack IE 10 as well, however It works fine on IE 11.

[wswebcreation]

@abdulmoizeng

Protractor will never support / fix this because the browser is not supported by Microsoft since 2016. It's for all versions of IE (https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/12/microsoft-ends-support-for-ie8-ie9-ie10-and-windows-8/)