How to perform Basic Authentication for FirefoxDriver, ChromeDriver and IEdriver in Selenium WebDriver?

I got it to work with Firefox webdriver by the following:

profile.SetPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "google.com");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://user:[email protected]");

True, BASIC HTTP authentication is not currently supported but I got it working now for FF and for Chrome.

The code I wrote in the questions works for those drivers. I just tried using FF3.6 as Firefox default browser (installed in Firefox folder) instead of FF4 (not supported yet). For IE, i may try to disable the authentication through Windows Registry.

This page http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=34 may help.

For more portability, this can be handled by stub API and using Alert.

Example Java code (sample):

import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.security.Credentials;
public void authenticateUsing(Credentials credentials) {
    private final Alert alert;
    alert.authenticateUsing(credentials);
}

See also: auth_tests.py

Or by sending keys manually like:

SendKeys("user");
SendKeys("{TAB}");
SendKeys("password");
SendKeys("~"); // Enter

See also the following feature request: #453 Portable BASIC Auth at GitHub

Related:

• How to send Basic Authentication headers in Selenium? at QA SE

Add this New Firefox Profile on your code

ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("myProjectProfile"); //replace "myProjectProfile" with your profile"
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);

Firefox configuration settings

This works fine without prompting any authentication when you do the following settings..

• Type "about:config" on your FF url
• Now type "Proxy" in the search field
• Make sure "signon.autologin.proxy" is set "true" (By default it is "false")

Load Default/Custom Chrome Profile to run tests using Selenium WebDriver

1. Download chromedriver.exe
2. Extract the chromedriver_win_26.0.1383.0.zip folder and locate .exe file to C:/ folder

Add this Script on your JAVA code

DesiredCapabilities capability = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/chromedriver.exe");
capability.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("–disable-extensions"));
capability.setCapability("chrome.binary", "C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("user-data-dir=C:/Users/user_name/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data/Default");
driver = new ChromeDriver(capability);

Note: IE doesn't need profile setup to run tests because they run on Server user while Firefox and Chrome works with binary.