How to Get Response Status Code with Selenium Webdriver Java

Selenium is an open-source web-based automation tool that is implemented using a web driver. We will be using geckodriver because Selenium 3 enables geckodriver as the default WebDriver implementation for Firefox.

Pre-requisites:

1. geckodriver.exe
2. maven dependency selenium

 <dependency>
    <groupid>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupid>
	<artifactid>selenium-java</artifactid>  
	<version>4.1.1</version> 
 </dependency>

Steps:

it's a 4 steps process:

1. Set webdriver.gecko.driver and its' path as a system property.
2. Set the firefox diver and browse to the website.
3. Get URL from web driver and try to open an HTTP connection using java.net.HttpURLConnection.
4. Get response code using the built-in function.

Let’s see all the above steps in the code. We will be using HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode() function to get the response status:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;


public class GetResponseCode {

    public static String GECKODRIVER_PATH = "F:\\WORK\\SeleniumShortTasks\\ResponseCode\\src\\main\\resources\\geckodriver.exe";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //set firefox webdriver
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", GECKODRIVER_PATH);
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

        //get the firefox browser & Browse the Website 
        String siteLink = "https://www.oracle.com/java/";
        driver.get(siteLink);

        try {
            // establish, open connection with URL
            HttpURLConnection cn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(driver.getCurrentUrl()).openConnection();
            // set HEADER request
            cn.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
            // connection initiate
            cn.connect();
            //get response code
            int res = cn.getResponseCode();
            //Display
            System.out.println("Http response code: " + res);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        //driver.quit();

    }
}

Output:

All resources used in this tutorial are attached:

• source code
• geckdriver.exe

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