Only local connections are allowed Chrome and Selenium webdriver

Question

I am using Chrome webdriver 2.23 & Selenium 2.53.1. I have tried a lot, but could not get it fixed. Whenever I run my selenium script, it is giving me the following error

Starting ChromeDriver 2.23.409699 (49b0fa931cda1caad0ae15b7d1b68004acd05129) on port 12162
Only local connections are allowed.

Answer 1

This is just an informational message. Your issue might be a missmatch between the versions of chromedriver and selenium-server-standalone.

Try with the latest selenium version 3.0, it is working for me.

Please not that for selenium 3.0 you need to specify the driver first and after the selenium server.

With the new selenium, which is 3.0 you should use:

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta2.jar If you are using selenium version below 3.0 you need to reverse the order of selenium with the driver, like:

java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=path_to_chrome_driver -jar selenium_server.jar

When you are starting the selenium server, open a console in the directory with chromedriver and selenium server and execute the above command.