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

For more portability, this can be handled by stub API and using Alert.

Example Java code (sample):

import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.security.Credentials;
public void authenticateUsing(Credentials credentials) {
    private final Alert alert;
    alert.authenticateUsing(credentials);
}

See also: auth_tests.py

Or by sending keys manually like:

SendKeys("user");
SendKeys("{TAB}");
SendKeys("password");
SendKeys("~"); // Enter

See also the following feature request: #453 Portable BASIC Auth at GitHub

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• How to send Basic Authentication headers in Selenium? at QA SE