Selenium WebDriver for ruby fails with "too many redirects" - ruby

Question

I've got this simple test case that tests a login form.
For some reason webdriver refuses to run the test and comes back with a "too many redirects" message. The page is just an ordinary login screen, very simple and there are no redirects whatsoever. Access from the server to the page seems ok.
I'm using selenium-webdriver-2.25.0 on a centos server.
Below the error message:
(...)
[WARNING] MultiJson is using the default adapter (ok_json). We recommend loading a different JSON library to improve performance.
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Finished in 0.206445 seconds.
1) Error: test_login(Login):
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError: too many redirects
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:62:in `request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:63:in `request'
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.25.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call'
(...)
My code:
require "rubygems"
require "selenium-webdriver"
require "test/unit"
class Login < Test::Unit::TestCase
def setup
#driver =Selenium::WebDriver.for(:remote, :url => "http://selenium.server.com/wd/hub")
#base_url = "http://www.myservice.com"
#driver.manage.timeouts.implicit_wait = 30
#verification_errors = []
end
def teardown
#driver.quit
assert_equal [], #verification_errors
end
def test_login
#driver.get(#base_url + "/login/")
#driver.find_element(:id, "username").clear
#driver.find_element(:id, "username").send_keys "user#server"
#driver.find_element(:id, "password").clear
#driver.find_element(:id, "password").send_keys "mykeys!"
#driver.find_element(:xpath, "//input[#value='Login']").click
verify { assert element_present?(:link, "Logout") }
verify { assert element_present?(:link, "Settings") }
verify { assert element_present?(:link, "Products") }
end
def element_present?(how, what)
#driver.find_element(how, what)
true
rescue Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError
false
end
def verify(&blk)
yield
rescue Test::Unit::AssertionFailedError => ex
#verificatiohttp://jenkins.dev.emesa-auctions.com/cms/n_errors << ex
end
end
UPDATE
It seems that no matter what url I use for the 'base url' the errors keeps occuring.

Answer 1

I managed to solve this problem myself. The issue was that I was accessing the server through its public facing url (selenium.server.com) instead of through the internal lan url (which bypass the firewall).
Changing that fixed the problem.