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fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago

Bit of an outside hope for help here (and not directly TC related per se, but...)

Hi All, I won't go into the details of WHY I need to achieve the following here, but: We have a web app under test, that contains a number of links that open PDF docs. I have existing TC...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    11 years ago
    Hi Steve,



    Just a quick idea: what if you will not click the link (well, all at all you are not testing that the given browser opens pdf reader when you click the link that references pdf file, are you?), but instead:

    a) (Optionally) analyse that the link has correct structure (this is to be on the safe side and guarantee (more or less) that for the correctly set browser the pdf reader should be opened);

    b) Download and save to the disk file from the link (http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/8999/)

    c) Explicitly start Adobe Reader from your test code;

    d) Open saved file in Adobe Reader;

    e) Proceed with your existing code :)



    Thoughts?
fayrehouse's avatar
fayrehouse
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago
Ack, I spoke too soon!



objHTTP.send();   produces an error:



msxml3.dll



System error: -2146697191



Could this be due to the fact the URL is HTTPS?



Or perhaps the fact that the SSL certificates on our test env are invalid (I've had to code around that for the different browsers... don't get me started on why we don't just sort the certs!)??



FYI - It looks like I have the following installed:



MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB954430)

MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB973688)



Thanks again Alexei for your suggestion - I am sure this is the way forward once I can resolve these issues!