Re: Proposal: Setting all capabilities to required

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Seva Lo <vlotoshnikov@gmail.com> wrote:
> If we (the local end) do not know why sessions failed to start, more
> information from the remote end will only help. Of course, often the browser
> just won't start or other component will malfunction and then the driver
> won't know much to report (could be an environment error or a transitional
> glitch), so it will return error message(s) as it does now. But if the
> session couldn't be started because certain specific capability couldn't be
> met (by the end driver or an intermediary such as Java Selenium server or a
> grid node), that's would be something to report back for the local end to
> know.

Sure, but we don't know anything about what additional capabilities a
remote end supports.

I think the best we can do is to _suggest_ that the remote returns a
non-successful response with a value that is a string with some
arbitrary reason why a session couldn't be provided.  Would that work
for you?

> I agree, with anything like described above, a standard order or
> consideration of the capabilities is important for interoperability.

Filed https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=27097

Received on Saturday, 18 October 2014 13:38:22 UTC