Unable to set proxy in ChromeDriver like Firefox in Pythonbindings

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 2463

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.I have to access a site which is only accessible via proxy
2.I could set a ssl proxy in firefox like :         profile.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl",
"proxyhostname")
profile.set_preference("network.proxy.ssl_port", proxyport)
3.But I don't find a way to set proxy like this in IE or Chrome

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I hope to set proxy for them too.

Selenium version:
OS:Windows and Linux
Browser:IE and GoogleChrome
Brower version:IE8,IE9,Googlechrome 13

Reported by glynnistian on 2011-09-15 08:25:15

[lukeis]

Reported by barancev on 2011-10-04 07:52:35

• Labels added: Component-WebDriver

[lukeis]

According to how the Java code works, this is what I think would be equivalent python
code (although it doesn't work for me):

from selenium import webdriver

PROXY = "localhost:8080"

webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.INTERNETEXPLORER['proxy'] = {
    "httpProxy":PROXY,
    "ftpProxy":PROXY,
    "sslProxy":PROXY,
    "proxyAutoconfigUrl":null,
    "noProxy":null,
    "proxyType":"MANUAL",
    "class":"org.openqa.selenium.Proxy",
    "autodetect":false
}
driver = webdriver.Ie()




Since both IE and Chrome look at the local lan settings, the usual way is to just set
it on the machine manually and then run the tests... although this is not ideal for
situations where you want to filter things or tweak headers via proxy just for tests.

Reported by luke.semerau on 2011-10-04 22:38:19

[lukeis]

Hi,luke

Thanks for your comments.
When you said "both IE and Chrome look at the local lan settings, the usual way is
to just set it on the machine manually", do you mean we could set it like this (in
linux): export http_proxy=$myproxy,and then run my tests on Chrome,it should work?

Reported by glynnistian on 2011-10-19 10:08:02

[lukeis]

Ok... figured out a bit more and wrote it up on the SeHQ docs site:

http://seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.html#using-a-proxy

So, I don't know how to do it with Chrome (programmatically). I tried to find a chrome
switch, but none actually worked for me when i tried.

Reported by luke.semerau on 2011-10-21 18:31:38

[lukeis]

Hi,luke

Thanks for your documenting ,I'll try it.

Reported by glynnistian on 2011-10-24 03:17:13

[lukeis]

I tried adding a command line argument to the ChromeOptions object:

  chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
  chrome_options.add_argument('--proxy-server=http://some-host:8123')
  browser = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=chrome_options)

And it worked on Windows and Linux. Maybe the documentation could be updated.

Reported by sylvain.pasche on 2012-01-20 01:02:23

[lukeis]

This works now

Reported by dawagner on 2012-04-11 21:07:08

• Status changed: Fixed

[lukeis]

Yes.
options.addArguments("--proxy-server=localhost:8091");
This is working on my end also. I am using BrowserMob Proxy with ChromeDriver to automate
android and desktop chrome browsers.

Reported by khushboo.kaur@3pillarglobal.com on 2014-02-20 08:12:49

[lukeis]

Reported by luke.semerau on 2015-09-17 18:13:45

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