How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java

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I'm trying to handle authentication popup using the code below:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);
profile.setPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "x.x.x.x");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
baseUrl="http://" + login + ":" + password + "@" + url;
driver.get(baseUrl + "/");

When I execute the test, the page shows the authentication popup and still loading for a until I click cancel button. A that moment, I can access to the next page ,this mean that the authentication success but still always show the authentication popup

Check this to handle alerts/popups stackoverflow.com/questions/17066382/… — Sriram
– Sriram, Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 12:06
I tried to authenticate using login:password@url with and without Firefox Profile/// Also, I tried to use ''____String window1 = driver.getWindowHandle(); driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input")).sendKeys(login);_____''/// And i tried ti access to popup with driver.switchTo().alert()/// And any think of those work prperly // always the test stuck in loading address with popup in screen — Imen CHOK
– Imen CHOK, Commented Jun 19, 2014 at 14:56
This question should be updated to note the type of authentication pop up that is being displayed. As the marked solution does not work for the browser authentication required pop up. — Acludia
– Acludia, Commented Aug 11, 2017 at 15:15

Madhan · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-06 08:14:29Z

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The Alert Method, authenticateUsing() lets you skip the Http Basic Authentication box.

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);      
Alert alert = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());     
alert.authenticateUsing(new UserAndPassword(username, password));

As of Selenium 3.4 it is still in beta

Right now implementation is only done for InternetExplorerDriver

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Len Over a year ago

Cool! Note that at this moment its still marked with the '@Beta' tag selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/…

Len Over a year ago

Hmm, in the latest chrome, it seems the basic auth login popup isnt seen as an 'alert'

Len Over a year ago

Yes, could it simply be because I'm using ChromeDriver?

benjrb Over a year ago

This doesn't appear to be implemented in .NET :(

Bhabani Sankar Mishra Over a year ago

Got removed github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/commits/master/java/client/src/…

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AskYous · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-25 04:44:13Z

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Don't use firefox profile and try below code:

driver.get("http://UserName:[email protected]");

If you're implementing it in IE browser, there are certain things which you need to do.

In case your authentication server requires username with domain like "domainuser" you need to add double slash / to the url:

//localdomain\user:[email protected]

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answered Jun 19, 2014 at 11:35

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Ralph Over a year ago

@Imen: try to add an / at the end of the url (see my answer)

Mr. Blond Over a year ago

You could also use- driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://UserName:[email protected]"). This worked for me

badp Over a year ago

so what if there is an @-sign in my password. Because there is an @-sign in my password.

Artem A Over a year ago

@badp in this case replace @ with %40 in password only. It's url encoding.

Cerin Over a year ago

This does not work in either a normal browser or a Selenium-powered one.

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undetected Selenium · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-11 09:20:43Z

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Try following solution and let me know in case of any issues:

driver.get('https://example.com/')
driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys("username" + Keys.TAB + "password");
driver.switchTo().alert().accept();

This is working fine for me

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Gonzague Over a year ago

That's the one that works for me. A bit unreliable when showing the UI (probably due to how i3wm handles focus though) but it works fine in headless.

Bastien Gallienne Over a year ago

not for me unfortunately. I get : Step failed org.openqa.selenium.NoAlertPresentException: no such alert

Artjom B. · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-03 14:19:24Z

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I faced this issue a number of times in my application.

We can generally handle this with the below 2 approaches.

Pass the username and password in url itself
You can create an AutoIT Script and call script before opening the url.

Please check the below article in which I have mentioned both ways:
Handle Authentication/Login window in Selenium Webdriver

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Elmue Over a year ago

AutoIt is a primitive shame. Why does Selenium Driver not implement this important feature?

ibaralf Over a year ago

I did the exact same approach before and both works great. AutoIT is a very reliable tool if you write your commands correctly, it's very stable.

djangofan · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-10 15:44:13Z

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This should work for Firefox by using AutoAuth plugin:

FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new ProfilesIni().getProfile("default");
File ffPluginAutoAuth = new File("D:\\autoauth-2.1-fx+fn.xpi");
firefoxProfile.addExtension(ffPluginAutoAuth);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile);

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Bhuvanesh Mani · Accepted Answer · 2020-01-31 17:15:03Z

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Popular solution is to append username and password in URL, like, http://username:[email protected]. However, if your username or password contains special character, then it may fail. So when you create the URL, make sure you encode those special characters.

String username = URLEncoder.encode(user, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
String password = URLEncoder.encode(pass, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString());
String url = “http://“ + username + “:” + password + “@website.com”;
driver.get(url);

answered Jan 31, 2020 at 17:15

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Rahul L · Accepted Answer · 2020-12-31 06:50:41Z

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Selenium 4 supports authenticating using Basic and Digest auth . It's using the CDP and currently only supports chromium-derived browsers

Java Example :

Webdriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

((HasAuthentication) driver).register(UsernameAndPassword.of("username", "pass"));

driver.get("http://sitewithauth");

Note : In Alpha-7 there is bug where it send username for both user/password. Need to wait for next release of selenium version as fix is available in trunk https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/commit/4917444886ba16a033a81a2a9676c9267c472894

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cjungel · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-06 19:32:52Z

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If you have to deal with NTLM proxy authentication a good alternative is to use a configure a local proxy using CNTLM.

The credentials and domain are configured in /etc/cntlm.conf.

Afterwards you can just use you own proxy that handles all the NTLM stuff.

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
proxy.setHttpProxy("localhost:3128");
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);

driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

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Elmue Over a year ago

As I have read CNTLM does not work with HTTPS. This makes it completely usless for me. sourceforge.net/p/cntlm/support-requests/14. Apart from that CNTLM is a dead project. Bugreports have no answers since 2012.

Norayr Sargsyan · Accepted Answer · 2025-07-02 07:25:33Z

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You can try this approach to authenticate.

HasAuthentication authentication = (HasAuthentication) driver;
authentication.register(() -> new UsernameAndPassword("username", "password"));

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