Re: Controlling the browser environment/settings

I have never tried it but I fully expect WebDriver to get a little upset 
by this (note I havent tried this). With WebDriver, from the OSS world 
and from Marionette, we expect there to be a network so that we can 
speak to the browser (with FirefoxDriver we need to communicate with 
httpd.js and with Marionette we go in via the remote debugger).

David

On 27/03/2014 12:24, James Graham wrote:
> For testing certain kinds of things it is very useful to be able to 
> put the browser into unusual modes which cannot be activated via 
> normal web apis. The particular example that I have in mind is offline 
> mode; being able to simulate the browser disconnecting and 
> reconnecting to the network is very useful for testing technologies 
> such as AppCache / Service Worker and web applications using these 
> features to provide offline support.
>
> Since this is something that can't be provided as a DOM API (except in 
> some hypothetical debug mode) and that is very useful both for testing 
> browsers and for testing web applications, it seems like WebDriver 
> would be the natural home for such a feature. Is it already supported 
> in some way that I missed? If not is it something that could be added?
>