[🐛 Bug]: using fill_in for a password input field with value "test" invokes a file uploader

[LeEnno]

Description

When I want to fill in a password input field with the value "test" I get the following error: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError: You are trying to upload something that isn't a file.

I'm not the only one facing the issue, see #13575 or this blog entry.

Reproducible Code

fill_in 'my_input[password]', with: 'test'

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ℹ️ Last known working version: 4.10.0

[github-actions]

⚠️ You reported using Selenium version 4.32.0, but the latest release is 4.38.

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[selenium-ci]

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[LeEnno]

Please verify that this issue still occurs with the latest version.

We use ruby 3.1. where 4.32.0 is the most recent version.

[cgoldberg]

Can you enable logging, and post the log along with a full stacktrace?

That error only occurs if you try to upload something that's not a file?
https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blame/0c17ff17f1fe2624750d84b401c2370aefed3119/rb/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/features.rb#L43

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