https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/categories/grid/Recent content in Grid on SeleniumHugoenThu, 22 Aug 2024 16:31:36 +0200https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/blog/2024/htmlunit-remote-for-selenium-4-grid/Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://deploy-preview-2575--selenium-dev.netlify.app/blog/2024/htmlunit-remote-for-selenium-4-grid/<h1 id="htmlunit-remote">HTMLUNIT REMOTE</h1> <p><a href="https://central.sonatype.com/search?q=com.nordstrom.ui-tools&#43;htmlunit-remote&amp;core=gav"><img src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/com.nordstrom.ui-tools/htmlunit-remote.svg" alt="Maven Central"></a></p> <p>The <a href="https://github.com/seleniumhq-community/htmlunit-remote">HtmlUnit Remote</a> project implements a <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver2">W3C WebDriver protocol</a> wrapper for <a href="https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/htmlunit-driver">HtmlUnitDriver</a>, which enables <strong>Selenium 4 Grid</strong> to supply remote sessions of this headless browser.</p> <h3 id="background">Background</h3> <p>To eliminate behavioral differences between local and remote configurations, the <a href="https://github.com/sbabcoc/Selenium-Foundation">Selenium Foundation</a> framework always acquires browser sessions from a <strong>Grid</strong> instance, managing its own local grid instance when not configured to use an existing grid. <strong>Selenium 3 Grid</strong> could be configured to supply <strong>HtmlUnitDriver</strong> sessions, supported by special-case handling within the Node server itself. This handling was not carried over into <strong>Selenium 4 Grid</strong>, which was completely re-engineered with new architecture and vastly expanded capabilities.</p>