XHR ERROR When accessing an URL (request_code = -1 ), test can not continue

This is a very simple test that open firefox to access an URL. But I keep getting this XHR Error with request code = -1. (The website is ok when manually accessing it).

11:39:31.886 INFO - Command request: open[/, ] on session 5e949364fce3407395b46062af7aa77a
11:39:31.918 INFO - Got result: XHR ERROR: URL = http://test.myweb.org/ Response_Code = -1 Error_Message = Request Error on session 5e949364fce3407395b46
062af7aa77a

any ideas? thanks!

After I added try/catch and wait, it turns out the error was caused by certificate error on the page, since it's a https page.
According to selenium documentation, selenium RC should be able to handle it automatically. But apparently it doesn't.

It would be great if somebody can shed some light on this...

Have you created a custom firefox profile to use as the spawn point for your selenium tests? I've run in to problems in certain environments with certs on https pages, but setting up a firefox profile with the certs saved as OK in it and using that to launch the selenium server took care of the problem.

yes this works perfectly. thanks!

Could you please post the complete steps involved in it?

Sabeer

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles

http://svn.openqa.org/fisheye/browse/~raw,r=2335/selenium-rc/website/src/main/webapp/options.html
Note the -firefoxProfileTemplate argument

Thanks for the steps. I was able to create a separate profile for FireFox 3.6.2 and able to use it for selenium RC server. Now my test cases are working. Thanks again

Sabeer