Using Personal SSL certificates with Webdriver (Selenium 2.0)

Question

I am testing a website which requires personal SSL certificates in order to do certain things, such as sign-in.

I have a Webdriver (Selenium 2.0) test that I have se

Answer 1

Webdriver can do this, although Derek is right and it isn't built in.

All you need to do is make a custom Trust Manager that trusts all certs and then also override the "hostname verifier" to allow a non-real domain name.

There is somewhat of an example I found on Google here:

http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/org.seleniumhq.selenium.server/selenium-server-coreless/1.0.3/org/openqa/selenium/server/TrustEverythingSSLTrustManager.java

This is the same method you would use with Apache HC components to override SSL settings without using WebDriver. I've used this method a lot with direct HTTP posts using Apache HT components and it "appears" that from the link above , this concept should also work with WebDriver.