Hi
I am trying to load webdriver for firefox using selenium but getting this error "[Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host"
Python Version:2.7
Selenium Version:2.53.3
Firefox Version:47
What may be the possible cause?
Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
driver=webdriver.Firefox()
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\firefox\webdriver.py", line 107, in __init__
print(str(e))
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 91, in __init__
self.start_session(desired_capabilities, browser_profile)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 173, in start_session
capabilities.setdefault('desiredCapabilities', {})[k] = v
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py", line 231, in execute
elif 'sessionId' not in params:
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 395, in execute
"""
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\remote_connection.py", line 426, in _request
(parsed_url.username, parsed_url.password)).encode('ascii')).decode('ascii').replace('\n', '')
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 1136, in getresponse
response.begin()
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 453, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File "C:\Python27\lib\httplib.py", line 409, in _read_status
line = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
File "C:\Python27\lib\socket.py", line 480, in readline
data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
error: [Errno 10054] An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host