How to avoid SSL certification error in Selenium Webdriver using Python?

Question

Here's a simple python code to go to a particular website:

import pandas as pd
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from time import sleep
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

profile=webdriver.ChromeOptions()
profile.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
driver =webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Utility_Tools\WebDriver\chromedriver.exe')
driver.get('www.google.com')

But since I haven't entered the url so it throws error. Whereas if I use this statement:

driver.get('https://www.google.com/')

Error Disappears. Since my database contains websites without SSL certifications is there any way to browse through them only? Here's my attempt but this too failed:

profile=webdriver.ChromeOptions()
profile.add_argument('--ignore-certificate-errors')
driver =webdriver.Chrome(r'C:\Utility_Tools\WebDriver\chromedriver.exe',options=profile)
driver.get('www.google.com')

The error I trigger each time I run the code is shown below:

errorhandler.py", line 242, in check_response raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace) selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument (Session info: chrome=79.0.3945.130)

Note that when I use the webpage with proper SSL certification link, the error disappears. — Shivam Sahil
– Shivam Sahil, Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 6:24
so it throws error. What error? Always include the entire error message. — AMC
– AMC, Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 7:11
I can't tell what you're doing but --disable-web-security makes those go away sometimes — pguardiario
– pguardiario, Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 23:25

Guy · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-21 06:37:38Z

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The problem is on get(), www.google.com is not a valid url. For not secure you can use http rather than https

driver.get('http://www.google.com')

answered Jan 21, 2020 at 6:37

Guy

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Shivam Sahil Over a year ago

Actually Its working with https. What I want to know is that since all my websites are without http tag then how can I figure out the way to browse without specifying http certifications.

Guy Over a year ago

@ShivamSahil all websites have http or https, otherwise it's not a valid url. If you store the urls without it just add it in the code 'http://' + 'www.google.com'

Guy Over a year ago

@ShivamSahil yes.

AMC Over a year ago

@ShivamSahil so even if it has https, will it still work? Make sure you understand what the issue was, https itself has nothing to do with it.

Shivam Sahil Over a year ago

@AMC Actually my issue was without SSL certifications, selenium was not working and error was as shown above. So I needed to know if there's a method to use SSL certification directly. I understand that https has no specific role. Thanks.

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