Chrome 59 and Basic Authentication with Selenium/Fluentlenium

Question

Chrome 59 has removed support for https://user:password@example.com URLs.

I have a test which was using this feature which has now broken, so I\'m trying to replace

Answer 1

Florent B. found a solution with the help of a chrome extension, that is added on the fly in the selenium test. The extenion handles the basic auth credentials, if requiered:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addExtensions(new File("C:/path_to/credentials_extension.zip"));
driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:9515"), options);

Chrome extension code: https://gist.github.com/florentbr/25246cd9337cebc07e2bbb0b9bf0de46
(just modify username and password in background.js and then zip the files background.js and manifest.json to credentials_extension.zip)

Found here: Selenium - Basic Authentication via url