How to set Proxy Authentication in seleniumWebdriver for Chrome Browser

Question

I\'m trying to Automate a web application selenium 2.0 [webdriver+java].The web application is currently deployed in our UAT servers on our local network.My test cases are e

Answer 1

This code (from Avishka Perera's answer) does not work for me:

    proxy.setSocksUsername("avishka");
    proxy.setSocksPassword("12345678");

The username and password set in this way do not take effect for the http/https proxy - the Proxy Authentication box still popped up.

I'm using Selenium java 3.141.0, ChromeDriver 2.33 and chrome 70. What works for me is to follow Mike's answer here Selenium using Python: enter/provide http proxy password for firefox . Create the zip file, then add the extension like this:

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addExtensions(new File("src/test/resources/proxy.zip"));
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

One catch is that the above code will run into error if you set "--headless" argument because chrome in headless mode cannot have extension (Is it possible to run Google Chrome in headless mode with extensions?). If your Chrome runs in Docker container and cannot show the UI, then to get this solution work, you'll need to run with Xvfb instead of in headless mode.