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    copied!<p>I have some problem with selenium.</p> <p>I want to send some <code>String content</code> to an element on my web with id= "source" and submit it here is my code</p> <pre><code>driver.get("http://hiriji.com/"); WebElement viet = driver.findElement(By.id("source")); viet.sendKeys(content); viet.submit(); </code></pre> <p>it works well, until the content is too big.</p> <p>after</p> <pre><code>viet.sendKeys(content); </code></pre> <p>the web suddenly change to 404 error page. So it got an error at</p> <pre><code>viet.submit(); </code></pre> <p>My question is how to ignore this error and continue with the below code. I don't need to send all content to the web, if it is too big it can be ignored...</p> <p>the stacktrace said:</p> <pre><code>Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.StaleElementReferenceException: Element not found in the cache - perhaps the page has changed since it was looked up Command duration or timeout: 392 milliseconds For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/stale_element_reference.html Build info: version: '2.25.0', revision: '17482', time: '2012-07-18 21:09:54' System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_31' Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:498) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:244) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.submit(RemoteWebElement.java:81) at RecieveData.TranslateStatus.translateViToEn(TranslateStatus.java:22) at RecieveData.htmlParser.parseHtml(htmlParser.java:43) at RecieveData.AddressToHtml.parseHtmlStatus(AddressToHtml.java:105) at RecieveData.MainProcess.main(MainProcess.java:29) Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler$UnknownServerException: Element not found in the cache - perhaps the page has changed since it was looked up Build info: version: '2.25.0', revision: '17482', time: '2012-07-18 21:09:54' System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.6.0_31' Driver info: driver.version: unknown </code></pre>
 

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