Selenium - Basic Authentication via url

Question

In my Selenium-Test (with chromedriver-2.24) I\'m trying to access my webpage via basic authentication with the following statement:

Answer 1

There were some updates in this link as :

Chromium Issue 435547 Drop support for embedded credentials in subresource requests. (removed)

We should block requests for subresources that contain embedded credentials (e.g. "http://ima_user:hunter2@example.com/yay.tiff"). Such resources would be handled as network errors.

However, Basic Authentication functionality still works with Selenium 3.4.0, geckodriver v0.18.0, chromedriver v2.31.488763, Google Chrome 60.x and Mozilla Firefox 53.0 through Selenium-Java bindings.

Here is the example code which tries to open the URL http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth with a valid set of credentials and it works.

Firefox:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class BasicAuthentication_FF 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver();
        driver.navigate().to("http://admin:admin@the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth");
    }
}

Chrome:

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

public class BasicAuthentication_Chrome 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
        ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
        options.addArguments("start-maximized");
        options.addArguments("disable-infobars");
        options.addArguments("--disable-extensions");
        WebDriver driver =  new ChromeDriver(options);
        driver.navigate().to("http://admin:admin@the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth");
    }
}