How to close a browser on a selenium RC server which lost it's client
Any browser instance has a session_id you can store. Python example:
>>> import selenium>>> browser = selenium.selenium("localhost",4444, "*firefox", "http://www.santiycr.com.ar")>>> browser.start()>>> browser.sessionIdu'b4ad1f1d624e44d9af4200b26d7375cc'So, if you store these sessionId in a file when your test starts and then remove it when your tests ends, you'll have a log file with sessions for tests that didn't end up properly.
Now using cron, or any regular execution, you can read that file, iterate over the sessionIds stored in it and open the following url (using a browser or even an http library for your programing language):
http://localhost:4444/selenium-server/driver/?sessionId=THE-SESSION-ID&cmd=testComplete
That should do the trick.
Edit: I found this question so interesting that created a post in my blog about the solution. If you're a python guy you'll find it interesting:http://www.santiycr.com.ar/djangosite/blog/posts/2009/aug/25/close-remaining-browsers-from-selenium-rc
You can also just kill the process:
Windows:
taskkill /f /im iexplore.exetaskkill /f /im firefox.exe
*nix:
for i in `ps -A | grep firefox | awk '{print $1}'`; do kill -9 $i; done