Can't launch browser with Selenium Remote Driver - perl

Question

I don't know why but I cannot launch browser using the below code. I am using EPIC on eclipse. I have installed required selenium modules for this.
I get this error when I run below mentioned code: "Could not connect to SeleniumWebDriver at C:/ProgramFiles/Perl/site/lib/Selenium/Remote/Driver.pm line 220"
Any help is appreciated.
Here is my code:
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;
my $driver = new Selenium::Remote::Driver(browser_name => 'firefox', port => 5555,
platform => 'WINDOWS');
$driver->get('http://www.google.com');
print $driver->get_title();
$driver->quit();

Answer 1

It might be closing the page before you notice it? Also, I think by default the port number selenium listens on is 4444.
Try this:
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;
my $driver = new Selenium::Remote::Driver(browser_name => 'firefox', port => 4444,
platform => 'ANY',);
$driver->get('http://www.google.com');
sleep(200);
print $driver->get_title(),"\n";
$driver->quit();

Answer 2

I changed the Selenium version to 2.31 and it worked. Previously I was using 2.28 which had incompatibility with FF 19

Answer 3

Charles, my PC was updated with new Java version and so my server start up file was failing to start the server. I corrected the start up file with correct java path and it launches the browser.
But I don't know why it gives blank page as it should open google.com

Answer 4

before run the code you should start the remote server.
Enter the path as below where your chrome driver and jar file are exited in your system and
Go to the command prompt an run the following command- please
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="\Enter folder path\chromedriver.exe" -jar \Enter folder path\selenium-server-standalone-2.53.0.jar
and if you are using Firefox then write the following code.
my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new();
for chrome user following -
my $driver = Selenium::Remote::Driver->new(browser_name => 'chrome');