I want to automate a login page. This page requires the user to log in with basic http authentication. I want to automate this page that has http basic authentication with selenium.
Our application requires to log in. After the user is logged in, he can click on a link in a menu. Then a new tab page opens with another web application. This web application requires some basic http authentication. There is a popup visible that requires the user to log in with a user and a password.
A real person fills in the required fields, the User Name and his password to log in. We try to fake a user with our selenium script. The first thing we want is that our script fills in the same fields. But this is not possible in selenium.
I searched a lot how to solve this problem. The only solution I found is that the script have to go to a url with the user and password in the url itself.
http://<user>:<pwd>@the.url.to.go/Therefore I wrote a function in our framework that fetches the current url and adds the user and password to it.
String appendUserAndPasswordToUrl() throws MalformedURLException {
URL current_url = new URL(driver.getCurrentUrl());
String host_part = CucumberConfig.getInstance().getUsername() +
":" + CucumberConfig.getInstance().getPassword() +
"@" + current_url.getHost() +
current_url.getFile() +
"#" + current_url.getRef();
return current_url.getProtocol() + "://" + host_part;
}
driver.get(this.appendUserAndPasswordToUrl());With this little code I managed to go to the application when the user clicks on the link. The script executes the following steps:
- The script clicks on the link
- The url opens with the popup in a new tab page
- The scripts activates the tab page
- The script reloads the url with the credentials
- The script can continue now
With this simple trick it is possible to enter a web page that opens via a click. The script needs to reload the page that opens. Http basic authentication with selenium, it is possible.
