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chrome not reachable exception when ExpressVPN is connected

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🐛 Bug Report

chrome not reachable exception when ExpressVPN is connected.

To Reproduce

Connect the Express VPN All firewalls disabled Run the below code -

from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path='D:/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')

Expected behavior

driver.get should be successful without any exceptions.

Actual Behavior

Below exception is thrown -

    D:\Assignment>python add_to_cart_v3.py

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:59948/devtools/browser/b3bea32b-25a1-47ff-800c-162e0200566a
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "add_to_cart_v3.py", line 67, in <module>
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options, executable_path=r'D:/chromedriver_win32/chromedriver.exe')
  File "C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\chrome\webdriver.py", line 81, in __init__
    desired_capabilities=desired_capabilities)
  File "C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
    self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)
  File "C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
    response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)
  File "C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 321, in execute
    self.error_handler.check_response(response)
  File "C:\Users\pc\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response
    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: chrome not reachable

Additional Information

When Express VPN is disconnected, everything works fine. Same issue observed in case of Firefox.

Environment

OS: Windows 10 Pro Browser: Chrome, Firefox Browser version: 86.0.4240.75 Browser Driver version: ChromeDriver 86.0.4240.22 Language Bindings version: python 3.6.6 32 bit Selenium Grid version (if applicable): 3.141.0 Express VPN connected

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments:12 (3 by maintainers)

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AutomatedTestercommented, Nov 17, 2020

The py3.6 issue has been fixed and since you’re saying it works in py3.7 I am closing this issue

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jaspreetsinghrawelcommented, Nov 22, 2020

The py3.6 issue has been fixed and since you’re saying it works in py3.7 I am closing this issue

@AutomatedTester Sir, I did not test it on python 3.7. I verified on Python 3.8.3 64 bit as per my earlier comment above

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