Support BASIC and Digest HTTP authentication

[lukeis]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 34

There should be an easy to use API for authenticating using standard HTTP mechanisms

Reported by simon.m.stewart on 2007-11-05 16:13:45

[lukeis]

I think it is worth mentioning that it is possible to do BASIC HTTP authentication --
in an ugly way - even now, by extending the driver.
@Override
protected WebClient newWebClient() {
    WebClient client = super.newWebClient();
    DefaultCredentialsProvider  provider = new DefaultCredentialsProvider();
    provider.addCredentials("username","password");
    client.setCredentialsProvider(provider);
    return client;
    }

Reported by turkoglu.deniz on 2008-08-12 10:02:34

[lukeis]

We are using version 0.6.870 and note that the newWebClient() method signature is
different to that above. We have found that the following works ok. because
newWebClient is called by the default constructor in the super class, you can't just
pass the usernam and password in the constructor, so we hacked about a bit with the
statics:

public class AuthenticatedHtmlUnitDriver extends HtmlUnitDriver {

    public static void setCredentials(String username, String password) {
        USERNAME = username;
        PASSWORD = password;
    }

    private static String USERNAME;
    private static String PASSWORD;

    public AuthenticatedHtmlUnitDriver() {
    }

    @Override
    protected WebClient newWebClient(BrowserVersion browserVersion) {       
        System.out.println("Logging in with: [username:" + USERNAME + "]");
        WebClient client = super.newWebClient(browserVersion);
        DefaultCredentialsProvider provider = new DefaultCredentialsProvider();
        provider.addCredentials(USERNAME, PASSWORD);
        client.setCredentialsProvider(provider);
        return client;
    }

}

Reported by jim.barritt on 2009-04-14 13:10:51

[lukeis]

Slightly nicer version is to have a factory method instead of setCredentials:

public static WebDriver create(String username, String password) {
        USERNAME = username;
        PASSWORD = password;
        return new AuthenticatedHtmlUnitDriver();
    }

Reported by jim.barritt on 2009-04-14 13:17:41

[lukeis]

I can only find the WebClient stuff inside HtmlUnit. Is there any solution/work
around to make this work with say the InternetExplorerDriver?

Reported by per.olesen on 2009-07-03 06:59:15

[lukeis]

If you’re using the Firefox driver there is an even dirtier work-around. It’s
possible to specify the username and password on the URL. e.g. 
http://username:password@www.basicauthprotected.com/.

The next hurdle is an anti-phishing dialogue box. This can however be suppressed
using aboubt:config, creating a new entry named network.http.phishy-userpass-length
with a type of Integer and a value of 255.

Reported by robdkay on 2010-04-27 11:02:33

[lukeis]

Reported by jari.bakken on 2010-06-17 00:28:34

• Labels added: Component-WebDriver

[lukeis]

Having also some issues (dialog box) with Basic Authentication on IE. As read in the
OpenQA Wiki this is handled automatically by the remote control. There should also
be such a feature for the InternetExplorerDriver. Is there any workaround so far?

Reported by roland.schaer on 2010-07-20 08:38:41

[lukeis]

Code for Handling HTTP Basic Authentication for FireFox driver is as follows. I know
this is a crude way but its working for now.

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
driver.get(http://username:password@www.basicauthprotected.com/);

Reported by arun280780 on 2010-12-07 09:05:22

[lukeis]

Doesn't  work in my situation ( I have domain\username and password  )

http://domain\username:password@www.basicauthprotected.com

Reported by Mochalin.Igor on 2011-04-26 14:15:17