Internet explorer hangs after clicking <a> that returns a file to download #448

[Always a student]

Original issue is documented here

https://github.com/seleniumhq/selenium/issues/448

IE was working fine all these days. Today I updated the IE driver to 3.6.0 (from here https://www.nuget.org/packages/Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver/)

Now, it is throwing this exact error as shown in the github page. After clicking on a button, the download dialog ' Do you want to ope or save myfile.pdf from [ip address]? |Open |Save |Cancel|' and then it doesnt proceed to next method. It throws an exception 

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: The HTTP request to the remote WebDriver server for URL http://192.168.137.5:4444/wd/hub/session/16cdc835-87f5-4af6-965b-1e60ef73c28d/element/7/click timed out after 60 seconds. ---> System.Net.WebException: The request was aborted: The operation has timed out.

I am not sure if it was fixed before (as the post at github says it will be fixed in future relase) and now the latest version broke. I was on version 3.5.0 and it was working fine. Now it is not. 

Anyone , any suggestion how to deal with it?

Thanks

[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

I don't think it was fixed. I doubt if it would be fixed as well. I would suggest that you use the workaround which Jim has suggested in the comments (viz., Leverage a pagetimeout, trigger it)

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[Always a student]

Thanks. I am not sure if it was ever fixed or not. I said it is probably fixed only because it was working fine in version 3.5.0 until I upgraded to the latest version of the IEDriver, 3.6.0. Perhaps it was fixed and now it it is broken again. Not sure.

I used page load strategy as per Jimevans' advice here (https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/999#issuecomment-201027047) but still no use. Just downgrading the driver for now. 

https://github.com/jimevans

[Always a student]

It has stopped working on 3.5.0 also now. Not sure if updates in Selenium.WebDriver or Selenium. Support did anything to this.  One thing I noticed is that ones it gets to this page where this 'Do you want to open or save..' dialog appears, clicking on Inspect Element in the context menu does not open the developer tools. As if it has been disabled.  Does this give any clue to anyone what might be happening?

[Always a student]

I found a solution myself. After getting to this particular page, the clicks were throwing exception. Instead of using iWebelement.click(), I used the click in OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions where I was moving to the element and click using this click() method in this namespace, then the exceptions went away

[Always a student]

 Actions class in this namespace