Chrome opens with “Data;” with selenium

Question

I am a newbie to Selenium and trying to open localhost:3000 pages from Chrome via selenium driver. The code is :

import com.google.common.base.Function;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class SeleniumTests {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://chromedriver_win32//chromedriver.exe");

        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();              

        driver.get("localhost:3000");

    }

}

However, this opens my chrome window with "data;". The chrome version is 50.0.2661.94

Any idea what is the exact issue?

Answer 1

Specify the protocol you are using, so instead of localhost:3000, use http://localhost:3000. If that doesn't help, see the comment here on the Chromium issue tracker.

Hope this helps!

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