title: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost error with Selenium 3.11.0 with IEDriverServer and IE 11 on Windows 10
body: <p>I am very new to selenium and trying to set up selenium in my laptop to begin. I am unable to invoke IE from my simple code. The details are given below. Can you please help me to understand where the issue is</p>
  
  <p>IE version: IE 11, 
  IE Driver: 64-bit, 
  OS: Windows 10 64 bit,
  Selenium version: 3.11</p>
  
  <p>Error:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>Started InternetExplorerDriver server (64-bit)
  3.9.0.0
  Listening on port 29313
  Only local connections are allowed
  Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:29313
  Build info: version: '3.11.0', revision: 'e59cfb3', time: '2018-03-11T20:33:08.638Z'
  System info: host: 'DESKTOP-B1D1PSJ', ip: '192.168.79.96', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_161'
  Driver info: driver.version: InternetExplorerDriver
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:92)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:545)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:209)
   at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.run(InternetExplorerDriver.java:223)
   at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.&lt;init&gt;(InternetExplorerDriver.java:215)
   at org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver.&lt;init&gt;(InternetExplorerDriver.java:152)
   at testing.Tryselenium.main(Tryselenium.java:31)
  Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Failed to connect to localhost/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1:29313
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:240)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connect(RealConnection.java:158)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.findConnection(StreamAllocation.java:256)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.findHealthyConnection(StreamAllocation.java:134)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.StreamAllocation.newStream(StreamAllocation.java:113)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.ConnectInterceptor.intercept(ConnectInterceptor.java:42)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:121)
   at okhttp3.internal.cache.CacheInterceptor.intercept(CacheInterceptor.java:93)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:121)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.BridgeInterceptor.intercept(BridgeInterceptor.java:93)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.intercept(RetryAndFollowUpInterceptor.java:125)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:147)
   at okhttp3.internal.http.RealInterceptorChain.proceed(RealInterceptorChain.java:121)
   at okhttp3.RealCall.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(RealCall.java:200)
   at okhttp3.RealCall.execute(RealCall.java:77)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.OkHttpClient.execute(OkHttpClient.java:101)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:101)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:73)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:136)
   at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:83)
   ... 6 more
  Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
   at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)
   at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source)
   at okhttp3.internal.platform.Platform.connectSocket(Platform.java:125)
   at okhttp3.internal.connection.RealConnection.connectSocket(RealConnection.java:238)</code></pre>
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  <p>Code:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>mport java.util.Arrays;
  import java.util.List;
  import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
  
  import org.openqa.selenium.By;
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
  import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver;
  import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
  
  public class Tryselenium {
     public static void main(String[] args) { 
       // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  
      WebDriver web;
      /*System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\Divakar\\Documents\\General\\Learnings\\Selenium\\Others\\Set Up files\\Browser Drivers\\" + "chromedriver_x32.exe");
      ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
     chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("excludeSwitches",Arrays.asList("test-type"));
     web = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
     web.manage().window().maximize();
     web.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);*/
     
      System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","E:\\General\\Learnings\\Selenium\\Others\\Set Up files\\Browser Drivers\\" + "IEDriverServer.exe");
     DesiredCapabilities capab = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
           capab.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS, true);
           web = new InternetExplorerDriver();
           web.manage().window().maximize();
           web.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  
        /*FirefoxDriver web = new FirefoxDriver();   
           web = new FirefoxDriver(); 
           web.manage().window().maximize();
           web.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(50,TimeUnit.SECONDS);*/
           
    web.get("http://www.icicibank.com/");
    web.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/a[1]")).click();
    web.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div/div[3]/div/ul[1]/li[1]/a")).click();
       web.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[1]/div/div[3]/a")).click();
       web.findElement(By.name("AuthenticationFG.USER_PRINCIPAL")).sendKeys("507133118");
       web.findElement(By.name("AuthenticationFG.ACCESS_CODE")).sendKeys("Soft2008");
       web.findElement(By.name("Action.VALIDATE_CREDENTIALS")).click();
       web.findElement(By.id("ContentLink1")).click();
       
  
       WebElement accttable =  web.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/form/div/div[3]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div/div/div[5]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div"));
    List&lt;WebElement&gt; all_rows =  accttable.findElements(By.tagName("tr"));
       
    int j = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i &lt; all_rows.size(); i++) {
        List&lt;WebElement&gt; rowAllCells = all_rows.get(i).findElements(By.tagName("td"));   
     if(rowAllCells.size()&gt;1)
     {
  
      String acctno=rowAllCells.get(2).getText();
      if(rowAllCells.get(2).getText().trim().equalsIgnoreCase("602605049934"))
      {
       web.findElement(By.id("AccountSummaryFG.SELECTED_INDEX")).click(); ///html/body/form/div/div[3]/div[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div/div/div[5]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/table/tbody/tr[4]/td[1]/input
       web.findElement(By.id("HREF_actNicNameOutput[" + j + "]")).click();
       web.findElement(By.id("backBtn")).click();
       web.findElement(By.id("VIEW_MINI_STATEMENT")).click();
       web.findElement(By.id("HREF_Logout")).click();
       web.close();
      }
      else     j = j + 1;
     }
    }
       
         
       
     }
   }</code></pre>
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