Webdriver: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: connect

Question

While running webdriver, 3 minutes into running, I get the following exception and Webdriver crashes.

I am using only one webdriver instance and one FirefoxDriver pr

Answer 1

If your situation is like mine, where you

1. open port 1
2. connect to machine
3. ??
4. close port 1
5. open port 1
6. connect to different machine

try adding socket.setSoLinger(true, 0); directly before socket.close();.

Like so:

socket.setSoLinger(true, 0);
socket.close();

This forces the OS to release the socket, rather than putting it in a TIME_WAIT state.