Handling Browser Authentication using Selenium - authentication

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This answer is outdated.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
Original answer:
This is not handled very well by Selenium.
You can try using http://username:password#example.com/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.
You can try Robot if you're using Java (or any similar tool like AutoIt).
You could use driver.manage().addCookie() if you're using WebDriver.
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:password#example.com/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:password#example.com/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