Debug "about:blank" in CasperJs - phantomjs

Question

I have the following simple casperjs script (I cannot name the actual URL - sorry) on a Windows 7 machine:
var casper = require('casper').create({verbose:true,logLevel: "debug"});
casper.start('https://[XXX].de', function() {
console.log(this.getCurrentUrl());
});
casper.run();
The Output states that it failed - and the current url is : "about:blank"
[info] [phantom] Starting...
[info] [phantom] Running suite: 2 steps
[debug] [phantom] opening url: https://[XXX].de, HTTP GET
[debug] [phantom] Navigation requested: url=https://[XXX].de, type=Other, lock=true, isMainFrame=true
[warning] [phantom] Loading resource failed with status=fail: https://[XXX].de
[debug] [phantom] Successfully injected Casper client-side utilities
about:blank
[info] [phantom] Step 2/2: done in 39205ms.
[info] [phantom] Done 2 steps in 39309ms
When send a GET request with the Firefox RESTCLient Plugin - I get:
Status Code: 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:09:37 GMT
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Server: unknown
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
My question is:
How can I debug this? Is this a known issue ?

Answer 1

Seems like the command line arguments passed to casperjs are not being passed to PhantomJS. I also ran into this issue and to fix this I ran my script as follows:
PhantomJS.exe --ignore-ssl-errors=true myscript.js
When I tried passing the parameters the other way around
PhantomJS.exe myscript.js --ignore-ssl-errors=true
it does not work and gives the same error as you have been facing.

Answer 2

To pass phantomjs parameters to casperjs, you can directly update your casper binary(casperjs.py on linux or casperjs.bat on windows).
On Linux, Open the casperjs.py, Update the CASPER_COMMAND array which is forming the phantomjs command and execute.
To add "--ignore-ssl-errors=yes", extend the CASPER_COMMAND by the following,
CASPER_COMMAND.extend(['--ignore-ssl-errors=yes']);
For the same, on windows or For more info can be found here