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WPM - upgraded from IE8 to IE9 - XML text search no longer works

anthony.os over 10 years ago

I have several WPM tests that bring up a page of XML/text and searches for a specific string. These tests were working fine on IE8. I then had a requirement to upgrade the browser to IE9 to support additional web tests that did not work on IE8. On IE9 my non-XML tests continue to work, but all the XML tests fail. If I play the recording it brings up the XML pages correctly; I can see the text string I want; BUT WPM fails to match the text. It does not say text not found, instead it says "playback failed: there has been an exception thrown during playback".

I tried building a new recording and it still fails out with the same error.

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0 jiri.tomek over 10 years ago

Hello,
exception during playback is something our support should look at. Can you please open a support case?
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0 anthony.os over 10 years ago in reply to jiri.tomek

Will do; thanks.
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0 alexander937 over 9 years ago

Did you figure out the issue? We are having the same issue here and I believe our workstation running the recorder and player have been upgraded to IE9. I get the same exception, only in recorder/player. If I run it manually using IE directly, it works, although compatibility mode is needed.
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0 alexander937 over 9 years ago in reply to alexander937

We found the issue, not sure how I missed this on my initial search. There is a hotfix out there for this issue, at least for 2.0.1+, you can find it here: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/4615/WPM+Error:+%93Playback+Failed.+There+has+been+an+Exception+thrown+during+Playback%94
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0 romeyde over 9 years ago in reply to jiri.tomek

I was under the impression that WPM couldn't search through XML at all? We have several tests like this and I ended up having to make a cgi script that is passed the XML url and then the cgi script itself searches the results and returns a success or failure message for WPM.
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