Getting Selenium to login via .htaccess popup

Question

Hi,

I am using WebDriver tool (similar to selenium) in a java application for linux. I am using webdriver to autofill form an submit it. I am facing problem with htaccess sites i.e., I am not able to access ht access site through Web driver.

Can anyone help me out in this regard.

Thanks in advance, Sunil.

Answer 1

From Selenium FAQ (which is down at the moment):

How do I use Selenium to login to sites that require HTTP basic authentication (where the browser makes a modal dialog asking for credentials)?

Use a username and password in the URL, as described in RFC 1738: Test Type
open http://myusername:[email protected]/blah/blah/blah

Note that on Internet Explorer this won't work, since Microsoft has disabled usernames/passwords in URLs in IE. However, you can add that functionality back in by modifying your registry, as described in the linked KB article. Set an "iexplore.exe" DWORD to 0 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE.

If you don't want to modify the registry yourself, you can always just use Selenium Remote Control, which automatically sets that that registry key for you as of version 0.9.2.

Answer 2

There is an outstanding issue for WebDriver to support basic and digest HTTP authentication. If you want to be notified of changes I suggest voting for the issue at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=34

Answer 3

I tried it in Selenium IDE, but it keeps removing the "@"-character from the base URL.