URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused> on python selenium with phantomjs

[Murthi S]

I am running a script on aws lambda but i am getting the following error and I have used the following configuration.

Python version: 2.7
Phantomjs version: 2.1.1 and 1.9.8
Selenium vesion: 2.53.1

The code flow is
import time
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.wait import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
import os,stat
import sys

def submit(driver):
    try:
        driver.find_element_by_id("as-take-next-question").click()
    time.sleep(5)
    #wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 10)
    #wait.until(EC.invisibility_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.pace-progress-inner')))
    except:
        try:
            driver.find_element_by_xpath("//span[contains(@class,'btn sty-blue submit')]").click()
        time.sleep(5)
        except:
        driver.quit()
            assert "Exception in submit answer method"


def attemptAnswer(driver, email_id):
        # student login
        elemEmail = driver.find_element_by_id("login-email")
        elemEmail.clear()
        elemEmail.send_keys(email_id)
        elemPass = driver.find_element_by_id("login-password")
        elemPass.send_keys("xyz")
        eleSignIn = driver.find_element_by_id("signIn")
        eleSignIn.click()
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(
            EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.CLASS_NAME, 'navbar-username')))
        driver.find_element_by_id("assignment").click()
    url=driver.current_url

    try:
        #driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/var/task/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs', service_args=['--ssl-protocol=any'], service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
        #driver.get(url)
        element = WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, "h4.as-title")))
        driver.find_element_by_css_selector("h4.as-title").click()
        time.sleep(10)
   
        #driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
        #driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/var/task/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs', service_args=['--ssl-protocol=any'], service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
        #element = WebDriverWait(driver, 60).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR, '.wrs_focusElement')))
        driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".true-false-student-answer-label").click()
    except Exception, err: print str(err)

        print("Question 1 attempted")
        submit(driver)

    driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".true-false-student-answer-label").click()
    submit(driver)

    driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".true-false-student-answer-label").click()
    submit(driver)
   
   
   
 
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    email_id=event['email']
     
    driver = webdriver.PhantomJS(executable_path='/var/task/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs', service_args=['--ssl-protocol=any'], service_log_path=os.path.devnull)
    #driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
    #driver = webdriver.Firefox()
    driver.set_page_load_timeout(30)
    driver.get("http://somexyz.com/")
    driver.maximize_window()
    driver.implicitly_wait(30)

    attemptAnswer(driver, email_id)
   
    driver.quit()
    print event
    return


The exception is

<urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>: URLError
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 86, in lambda_handler
attemptAnswer(driver, email_id)
File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 56, in attemptAnswer
driver.find_element_by_css_selector(".true-false-student-answer-label").click()
File "/var/task/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 437, in find_element_by_css_selector
return self.find_element(by=By.CSS_SELECTOR, value=css_selector)
File "/var/task/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 752, in find_element
'value': value})['value']
File "/var/task/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 234, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)
File "/var/task/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 407, in execute
return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)
File "/var/task/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 477, in _request
resp = opener.open(request, timeout=self._timeout)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1230, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1200, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 111] Connection refused>

[Oscar Zamboni]

same problem here.