Handling Browser Authentication using Selenium

Question

Does anyone know about handling Browser Authentication using Selenium or any other tool during automation?

Answer 1

EDIT in 2015:

This answer is outdated. WebDriver nowadays supports authentication! See How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java

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Original answer:

This is not handled very well by Selenium.

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You can try using http://username:[email protected]/yourpage

instead of just http://example.com/yourpage

However, as far as I know, Firefox will still pop up a browser dialog requesting a confirmation.

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You can try Robot if you're using Java (or any similar tool like AutoIt).

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You could use driver.manage().addCookie() if you're using WebDriver.

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Or a custom FirefoxProfile that has already passed the authentication once.

Answer 2

I spent days on this - literally. Trying to get past browser level authentication within my company network to hit an application. The solution was to use the 'unsername:password@' component within the URL, BUT to add a forward slash at the end of the login URL.

So total login URL looks like this (note the '/' after yourpage):

http://username:[email protected]/yourpage/

Works with Watir, Capybara and Selenium Webdriver.

Answer 3

Everything I have read on the Web didn't help me. So before making a request, like this:

driver.get(url); 

you have to run a new thread like this:

RunScript runScript = new RunScript(); runScript.start(); 

In this case you are free to input login and password on another thread of follwing class

public class RunScript extends Thread { @Override public void run() { try { File file = new File("D:\\jacob-1.18-x86.dll"); System.setProperty(LibraryLoader.JACOB_DLL_PATH, file.getAbsolutePath()); AutoItX autoIt = new AutoItX(); Thread.sleep(2000); autoIt.winActivate("yourWindowName", ""); autoIt.winWaitActive("yourWindowName"); if (autoIt.winExists("yourWindowName")) { autoIt.send("username{TAB}", false); autoIt.send("password{Enter}", false); } } } catch (InterruptedException ex) { // } } } 

Answer 4

All the hacks via auto-it, sikuli, etc. just wasting your time when you'll run it in your CI solution, using several browser types / OS / Version / Resolutions etc.

The way to do it correctly is to identify the authentication actual method and perform a login using Rest protocol for instance.

I used it to get the JSESIONID cookie and insert it to the selenium driver. hint on that: go to a non-exiting url of the domian first, then set the cookie, then go to the required url - you are logged-in.

use: rest client authentication to get the JSESSION ID

and With this information:

browser().navigate(foo.getUrl()+"non-exiting-url"); //the information got from the rest client login: Cookie cookie = new Cookie(name, value, domain, path, expiry, isSecure, isHttpOnly); try { driver.manage().addCookie(cookie); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e.toString()); } browser().navigate(foo.getUrl()); 

Answer 5

you can use auto IT script to handle this problem

WinWaitActive("[CLASS:Chrome_WidgetWin_1]", "", time) Send("user") Send("{TAB}") Send("pass") Send("{ENTER}") 

Answer 6

with Chrome 70 and other versions :

http://username:[email protected]/yourpage 

Answer 7

You can use Java Robot class with Selenium 2 /Selenium WebDriver using Firefox

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get("http://localhost:9990"); WebElement myDynamicElement = driver.findElement(By.id("app")); Alert alert = driver.switchTo().alert(); try { Robot robot = new Robot(); alert.sendKeys("username"); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);//go to password feild robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_P); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_S); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_S); robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER); } catch (AWTException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } 

Using Selenium with Robot
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html