[Wtr-general] Setting a timeout on ie.goto()?

[Charley Baker]

Hey Steve,

   Honestly that sounds like a defect. That being said, there is no simple
way that I currently know of to get around waiting for ie to return a ready
state.

-Charley

On 7/21/06, Steve Tangsombatvisit <sbtang1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Hi folks,
>
> Relatively new to using Ruby/Watir...  I have a quick question about the
> ie.goto statement, is there a way to set a timeout for this call so that
> if the webpage does not complete loading with X amount of seconds the call
> terminates?
>
> The problem we're running into is that some of the pages we access
> occasionally NEVER finish loading. On the IE status bar (bottom left) we'll
> see a message that says "Opening Page XXXX" or " (1 Item Remaining) Opening
> Page XXXXX" and that message will persist forever (as far as we can tell)...
> So our scripts are hanging at the ie.goto call cause the page never loads
> completely.
>
> Any tips you guys can give me?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
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