How to perform Basic Authentication for FirefoxDriver, ChromeDriver and IEdriver in Selenium WebDriver?

Question

I am using the Selenium-Firefox-driver and Selenium-Chrome-Driver version 2.0a5 (Web Driver API), and I am trying to test a web app that h

Answer 1

Add this New Firefox Profile on your code

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("myProjectProfile"); //replace "myProjectProfile" with your profile"
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

Firefox configuration settings

This works fine without prompting any authentication when you do the following settings..

• Type "about:config" on your FF url
• Now type "Proxy" in the search field
• Make sure "signon.autologin.proxy" is set "true" (By default it is "false")

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Load Default/Custom Chrome Profile to run tests using Selenium WebDriver

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1. Download chromedriver.exe
2. Extract the chromedriver_win_26.0.1383.0.zip folder and locate .exe file to C:/ folder

Add this Script on your JAVA code

DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver.exe");
capability.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("–disable-extensions"));
capability.setCapability("chrome.binary", "C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default");
driver = new ChromeDriver(capability);

Note: IE doesn't need profile setup to run tests because they run on Server user while Firefox and Chrome works with binary.