Wat与Tor浏览器

Question

I've been playing with Watir and Tor browser and I can't get them to work. The correct browser opens, however, I'm unable to open a website.

My code:

Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox.path = '\path\Tor Browser\Start Tor Browser.exe'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :driver => driver

This results in a message box popping up, which says:

Your Firefox profile cannot be loaded. It may be missing or inaccessible.

The correct browser also opens up, however, the website doesn't.

I've also tried:

Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox.path = '\path\Tor Browser\Browser\firefox.exe'
driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :firefox
browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :driver => driver

With this, the message box doesn't appear, but still, the website is not loaded.

I'm not sure, if the problem is in my code or in the browser. Thank you very much for any help!

Answer 1

Start Tor then run this, assuming your socks port is 9050

require 'watir-webdriver'

profile = Selenium::WebDriver::Firefox::Profile.new
profile['network.proxy.socks'] = "127.0.0.1"
profile['network.proxy.socks_port'] = 9050
profile['network.proxy.type'] = 1
$browser = Watir::Browser.new :firefox, :profile => profile

$browser.goto "whatsmyip.org" 

Answer 2

Firefox and Tor are not the same browser. Watir uses webdriver API to control the browser. You can't use Firefox webdriver API to control another browser.

In your second example, browser don't open the site, but you don't tell him to. You should add :

browser.goto('http://my.example.com')

And don't forget to put a browser.quit at the end of your code to close the browser.