Basic HTTP authentication and Webdriver

I encountered an interesting problem last week.

I had to make an automated test scripts on a test site which was protected by Basic HTTP Authentication.

I’ll assume that everybody knows how Basic HTTP Authentication works and will just focus on the solution:

 WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

 driver.get("http://username:password@URL");

Of course you should change the username, password and URL strings to your data .

To pass the basic http authentication in firefox, you have to set a browser preference during the driver creation.

 FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

 profile.SetPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);

 driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

 driver.get("http://username:password@URL");

The added setting will disable the anti-phishing dialog box.

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Method 2:

After spending hours reading I finally found the solution which works pretty well and I hope this will help others too. - Enjoy!!

First - follow this steps:

1) Open the FireFox browser
2) Type the following `about:config`
3) Look for `network.http.phishy-userpass-length` if you don't find then create a new Integer key 
Create a new Integer key (right-click->New->Integer): `network.http.phishy-userpass-length` with value `255`

Second: You need to create a Firefox driver with the following:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.SetPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);
profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "YOUR HOST ADDRESS HERE");
_driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);