prevent external content to be loaded in selenium webdriver test

Question

The question:

Is is possible to tell a browser that is controlled by selenium webdriver to not load any content from external sources, or alternatively, not

Answer 1

You can chain the proxy, there isn't much documentation out there about doing so:

http://www.nerdnuts.com/2014/10/browsermob-behind-a-corporate-proxy/

We were able to use browsermob behind a corporate proxy using the following code:

// start the proxy
server = new ProxyServer(9090);
server.start();

server.setCaptureContent(true);
server.setCaptureHeaders(true);
server.addHeader(“accept-encoding”, “”);//turn off gzip

// Configure proxy server to use our network proxy
server.setLocalHost(InetAddress.getByName(“127.0.0.1″));

/**
 * THIS IS THE MAJICK!
 **/
HashMap options = new HashMap();
options.put(“httpProxy”, “172.20.4.115:8080″);
server.setOptions(options);
server.autoBasicAuthorization(“172.20.4.115″, “username”, “password”);

// get the Selenium proxy object
Proxy proxy = server.seleniumProxy();
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.phantomjs();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);