When using with PhantomJS file uploading doesn't work

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 6006

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. my ruby script (using phantomjs, and watir webdriver) navigates to imagebam.com,
and logs in
2. It sets the file input field to an existing file with full path
3. When clicking upload button I got an error message: "EOFError: end of file reached,
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/net/protocol.rb:153:in `read_nonblock'"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Properly uploading the image file.

Selenium version: 2.33, Watir-Webdriver Ruby gem: 0.6.4
OS: Arch Linux 3.10.1-2-ck
Browser: PhantomJS
Browser version: 1.9.1


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My code:

require 'watir-webdriver'
fname="/home/walaki/jgyol1.jpg"
b = Watir::Browser.new :phantomjs
b.goto "http://www.imagebam.com/login"
b.text_field(:name, "nick").value="myusername"
b.text_field(:name, "pw").value="mypassword"
b.link(:text,"LOGIN").click
b.goto "http://www.imagebam.com/basic-upload"
b.file_field(:name => "file[]",:index => 1).set(fname)
b.link(:text,"UPLOAD NOW!").click

I got error message as above.

Reported by kisbelus on 2013-07-26 18:29:41

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2013-07-29 22:50:17

• Labels added: Browser-PhantomJS

[lukeis]

What part of the mozaic is responsible for this failure? PantomJS? Watir-Webdriver?
Webdriver? Ruby?

Reported by barancev on 2013-10-20 15:32:25

• Status changed: NeedsClarification

[lukeis]

I have no clue.

2013/10/20, selenium@googlecode.com <selenium@googlecode.com>:

Reported by kisbelus on 2013-10-20 16:45:47

[lukeis]

I've experienced file upload issues with Selenium + Phantom, but using the JavaScript
API. Upload works fine in Chrome and Firefox.

Specifically, the upload happens via the new JavaScript Files API. Could be a problem
with Phantom... not sure how to test though. That would mean I need a different way
of automating the upload.

Reported by mnbayazit on 2013-10-20 17:48:27

[lukeis]

Looks to me like a PhantomJS issue if it's EOFing the connection.

Reported by jari.bakken on 2014-08-13 09:32:14

[lukeis]

I think the issue is with Selenium and PhantomJS.
I can upload a file to PhantomJS with CasperJS, but not with a Selenium test.
Since uploading a file to PhantomJS is possible with CasperJS, this suggests to me
that the issue is with how Selenium is trying to upload a file to PhantomJS.

Reported by richard.flosi on 2014-08-20 21:53:11

[lukeis]

This issue happens not only on file upload , but started happening to me now when i
moved from mac to ubuntu. 
b=Watir::Browser.new :chrome
as well. the browser is opened but the command fails with the same error . 

Hope it will be fixed. 

Reported by michreyfman on 2014-09-02 12:25:31

[lukeis]

Reported by jari.bakken on 2015-02-20 17:40:20