how-to use addCustomRequestHeader properly

Question

I\'m trying to add headers into my HTTP request for a particular test case. That\'s very important since I\'m trying to test an application meant to be used in

Answer 1

You need to make sure that you're using Selenium as a proxy server. I've written up an article on how to use addCustomRequestHeader in order to support basic authentication. You should be able to extrapolate the relevant portions (note I used Ruby, but it maps to other languages just as well):

http://mogotest.com/blog/2010/06/23/how-to-perform-basic-auth-in-selenium

One thing you very much need to be aware of is that there is no way to remove the request header. It's always additive and it's added for every request. If you need to use different headers, you'll need to restart the Selenium server.