I am using watir(Ruby selenium package) to try and login to url using basic auth
I pass the credentials like so
https://username:password#nagios.com
However when the browser opens, i get a popup to enter the credentials again.
The code that i use is as follows
driver = Watir::Browser.new :chrome
driver.goto "https://username:password#nagios.com"
The above code opens the browser -> goes to the url but give the popup to enter the credentials again.
How do i login to the url using basic auth?
Turns out that Chrome has stopped supporting passing credentials in the url after version 52. more info https://medium.com/#lmakarov/say-goodbye-to-urls-with-embedded-credentials-b051f6c7b6a3
To fix this you need to set an argument --disable-blink-features="BlockCredentialedSubresources" while launching the browser. what this does is that it disable that feature
More info Bypass blocking of subresource requests whose URLs contain embedded credentials
This is my final code which works
args = ['--disable-software-rasterizer',
'--disable-blink-features="BlockCredentialedSubresources"',
'--no-proxy-server',
'--disable-gpu',
'--no-sandbox',
'--ignore-certificate-errors']
driver = Watir::Browser.new :chrome, options: {args: args}
driver.goto "https://username:password#nagios.com"
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While automating with selenium if a username and password is entered why doesn't
chrome browser show the option to save credentials as it does in regular
practice.
As mentioned in previous answer, new instance of WebDriver opens fresh browser window, without previous cookies etc.
What could you do is:
When you first start WebDriver and open login page, using selenium enter credentials, make sure you check "remember details" checkbox is present.
Now once you are logged in, you can get cookies from browser using:
driver.manage().getCookies();
You could get all cookies and save them in text file for example.
Next time you open fresh browser, before opening page, load cookies that you previously saved.
driver.manage().getCookies().add(cookie);
Because of the way the web-driver works, it deletes all cookies/caches of information which could accidentally fail a test, you'll notice it doesn't open an ordinary browser, its often a light-weight version of the browser.
If you want it to save cookies and caches you will A) have to specify this in your code, and B) you will have to test around the fact that you have saved passwords, so if you move your tests onto a different computer, the browsers cache will be different and your tests won't work anymore.
Actually The Webdriver Opens The Browser Without Cookies. if You Need To Save Your cookies,you can use these commands,
driver.manage().getCookieNamed(String arg);
driver.manage().getCookies();
driver.manage().getCookies().add(cookie);
All Three are use to Get The Cookie and Save The Cookie.
or
if The Browser Shows a Pop-up,to Save The User name name and Password use can use This,
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.AddArguments("chrome.switches", "--disable-extensions --disable-extensions-file-access-check --disable-extensions-http-throttling --disable-infobars --enable-automation --start-maximized");
options.AddUserProfilePreference("credentials_enable_service", false);
options.AddUserProfilePreference("profile.password_manager_enabled", false);
var driver = new ChromeDriver(options);
I wrote a test using Capybara that checks whether Chrome's auto-fill feature works correctly for my web application's login form. If running the web application in the browser and saving the password after registration, Chrome automatically fills the login form. However for the automated test, I didn't find a way to make Chrome save the password of the registration form that's been entered by Capybara/Selenium. It seems like the popup for this isn't even shown. Is there a way to enable the saving of passwords?
You can try this:
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do |app|
preferences = {credentials_enable_service: true,
password_manager_enabled: true}
capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.chrome
capabilities['chromeOptions'] = {'prefs' => preferences}
Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(app, browser: :chrome,
desired_capabilities: capabilities)
end
The workflow will be like this:
start driver
enter credentials
browser will ask if you want to save them
log in in app and log out
then try to enter credentials second time
Also probably you will be interested in capybara-sessionkeeper
I am trying to login to the site that has windows authentication enabled using URL "http://userName:pass#siteName.com" in selenium web driver. It is working fine in normal cases, however it doesn't work when the password contains a special character '#'.
I also tried to handle it using alert with following code, but it is also not working:
UserAndPassword up = new UserAndPassword("userName", "pass");
driver.switchTo().alert.authenticateUsing(up);
Please suggest how to escape this special character.
I am running my test cases in chrome browser.
Good day to all.
I'm use Selenium WebDriver to automatically test execute. But on development site using HTTP base autentification. I found AutoAuth addon for Firefox. It save login/password and don't need type credentional each time.
But this plugin don't save credentions. I'm reinstall addon and firefox, delete cookie, but nothing. On this machine in other user plugin work successfylly. Maybe, anybody have and resolve this problem?
To author of addon I wrote already.
Way:https://login:passwd#host don't help too...
Do you mean plugin not working on invoking with webdriver? simple way to create profile and call that provide in webdriver.
Here is the way to create firefox profile. Install that add-in and save credentials.
Call above saved profile in webdriver
ProfilesIni allProfiles = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile profile = allProfiles.getProfile("selenium");
WebDriver driver = FirefoxDriver(profile);
Thank You,
Murali
If it's a HTTP Basic Authentication, then you can set the credentials in the URL. Note that it requires to set the "network.http.phishy-userpass-length" preference to enable it.
Here is a working example with Selenium / Firefox / Python:
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(profile)
driver.get("http://admin:admin#the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth")
The approach I've used very successfully is to set up an embedded Browsermob proxy server (in Java code) and register a RequestInterceptor to intercept all incoming requests (that match the host / URL pattern in question).
When you have a request that would otherwise need Basic auth, add an Authorization HTTP header with the credentials required ('Basic ' + the Base64-encoded 'user:pass' string. So for 'foo:bar' you'd set the value Basic Zm9vOmJhcg==)
Start the server, set it as a web proxy for Selenium traffic, and when a request is made that requires authentication, the proxy will add the header, the browser will see it, verify the credentials, and not need to pop up the dialog.
You won't need to deal with the dialog at all.
Other benefits:
It's a pure HTTP solution, it works the same across all browsers and operating systems.
No need for any hard-to-automate add-ons and plugins, any manual intervention.
No need for custom profiles, custom preferences etc.
You control credentials in your test code, and don't store them elsewhere.
My question is when ever i hit the restapi URL from my selenium it ask for authentication to return data in JSON format as for the same i provide username and password... but its not accepting the username and password and SHows message "required uname and password. The server says : protected area"
This is only happening in the browser which is getting opened through selenium
when i normally open the browser it accept the uname and password
i tried on the IE, Chrome and mozilla and the same problem persist
Is there any way that when i run my code it should not open the new browser window rather than use the new tab in already opened browser ......