Mink + PhantomJS: How do I set the user agent? - selenium

Question

I am using phantomjs with mink:
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
goutte: ~
selenium2:
browser: phantomjs
wd_host: http://localhost:8643/wd/hub
capabilities:
webStorageEnabled: true
But I need to masquerade as the latest chrome. I have tried this:
/**
* #BeforeStep
*/
public function masqueradeAsLatestChrome(StepEvent $event)
{
$this->getSession()->setRequestHeader('User-Agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36');
}
But I get the exception:
[Behat\Mink\Exception\UnsupportedDriverActionException]
Exception has been thrown in "beforeStep" hook, defined in FeatureContext::masqueradeAsLatestChrome()
Request header is not supported by Behat\Mink\Driver\Selenium2Driver
The version of chrome isn't critical but the web application must think its talking to a very recent version of chrome.

Answer 1

Selenium does not provide this capability, as it is not something a
user can do. It's recommended you use a proxy to inject additional
headers to the requests generated by the browser.
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=2047#c1
Sadly… However, the PhantomJS does provide an interface for setting the headers. Your best shot would be to send a direct command to it using it's REST API. There's also a cool PHP wrap library that would make it 200 times easier.

Answer 2

You should use the new Behat/Mink driver made by Juan Francisco Calderón Zumba
https://github.com/jcalderonzumba
Here is a direct link to the driver https://github.com/jcalderonzumba/MinkPhantomJSDriver
This driver allows you to specify the request headers that you need
(It works with Behat 3.0 but I think it requires at least PHP 5.4)

Answer 3

you can pass additional settings in selenium2driver via
extra_capabilities:
so in your case:
default:
extensions:
Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
goutte: ~
selenium2:
browser: phantomjs
wd_host: http://localhost:8643/wd/hub
capabilities:
webStorageEnabled: true
extra_capabilities:
phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36"

Answer 4

For https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver you can use this case:
$capabilities = [
WebDriverCapabilityType::BROWSER_NAME => 'phantomjs',
WebDriverCapabilityType::PLATFORM => 'ANY',
WebDriverCapabilityType::ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS => false,
WebDriverCapabilityType::JAVASCRIPT_ENABLED => true,
'phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent' => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246",
];