How to handle basic authentication with protractor?

Question

I\'m trying protractor to write a few tests in a non angular application. I have to login in a page trough basic authentication in google chrome, but i have no idea how.

Answer 1

It's because Firefox doesn't trust any site by default with sending the windows auth info over. Even if you change it in the configurations manually, it won't affect protractor because it opens Firefox with an isolated configuration each time you run your end to end tests.

You'll need to programatically set up a Firefox profile and set its preferences such that it would trust localhost (or some other website, depending where the pages are loaded from)

First, check out this example. It shows how you can set up the profile and how you can set preferences.

https://github.com/juliemr/protractor-demo/tree/master/howtos/setFirefoxProfile

What it does is that it modifies the homepage for each new tab. In the same manner (with the firefoxProfile.setPreference method) you can change the preferences responsible for trusting websites. They're called "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" and "network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris". You'll need to set them both to "localhost". (Again, if they're at some other place, it's obviously that url)

That should fix it :)