- From: Andreas Tolfsen <ato@mozilla.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 11:35:22 +0100
- To: Seva Lo <vlotoshnikov@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Burns <dburns@mozilla.com>, public-browser-tools-testing <public-browser-tools-testing@w3.org>
I hit the send but accidentally. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Andreas Tolfsen <ato@mozilla.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Seva Lo <vlotoshnikov@gmail.com> wrote: >> Related here. When POST /session returns an *error*, details of the >> *reasons* why the request was denied may become more important if all >> capabilities are required. > > I agree that would be nice, but it's meaningless to specify that > drivers must return a sensible error message when we don 't know why they're failing for non-standard capabilities. However you're right that specifying error handling of matching the specified capabilities would be important. For example all drivers should match the capabilities in an orderly manner, so that not one driver checks browserName first and another browserVersion. Currently we only suggest an ordering in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webdriver/raw-file/tip/webdriver-spec.html#h4_remote-end-matching-of-capabilities.
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