I'm using Selenium python binding to setup an automation test for our web application. I'm facing a problem while testing the web on beta server because it requires HTTP authentication for an intranet username and password.
from selenium import webdriver
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
driver.get("https://somewebsite.com/")
I need to submit a username and a password for the popup dialog upon accessing http://somewebsite.com/
Is there a neat way to do this?
I have found a solution to this question:
from selenium import webdriver
profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('network.http.phishy-userpass-length', 255)
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_profile=profile)
driver.get("https://username:[email protected]/")
The FirefoxProfile part is to dismiss the confirmation dialog because by default Firefox will show a popup dialog to prevent pishing.
Another solution:
login with python requests, get the cookies, and push the cookies into the selenium's browser
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
session = requests.Session()
www_request = session.get('http://example.com', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('username','password'), allow_redirects=False)
driver = webdriver.Remote(...)
#chrome needed to open the page before add the cookies
driver.get('http://example.com')
cookies = session.cookies.get_dict()
for key in cookies:
driver.add_cookie({'name': key, 'value': cookies[key]})
driver.get('http://example.com')
authorization header is required for all requests - not just the first.