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 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17066382/alert-handling-java-webdriver — Sriram, Jun 19 '14 at 12:06
I tried to authenticate using http://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, Jun 19 '14 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, Aug 11 '17 at 15:15
Now with selenium 4, it's very easy. Please check my answer here https://stackoverflow.com/a/67321556/7604647 — Pavel, Apr 29 '21 at 16:40

score 40 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 06 '17 at 08:14

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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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answered Sep 20 '14 at 04:31

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Cool! Note that at this moment its still marked with the '@Beta' tag http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/Alert.html#authenticateUsing(org.openqa.selenium.security.Credentials) – Len Dec 15 '14 at 10:55
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Hmm, in the latest chrome, it seems the basic auth login popup isnt seen as an 'alert' – Len Jan 07 '15 at 15:38
@SirLenz0rlot is that still an issue in your case? – Prashanth Sams Jan 08 '15 at 06:31
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Yes, could it simply be because I'm using ChromeDriver? – Len Jan 08 '15 at 10:00
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This doesn't appear to be implemented in .NET :( – benjrb Feb 13 '15 at 13:55
Is there a way to do this using Ruby? I don't see an API that has the alertIsPresent value nor the authenticateUsing() method. Thanks :) – Tiago May 25 '15 at 14:45
For anyone struggling look at :http://www.toolsqa.com/selenium-webdriver/autoit-selenium-webdriver/ – Vishal Anand Sep 19 '15 at 07:00
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What is UserAndPassword? It seems to be a class. – Ripon Al Wasim Mar 09 '16 at 10:13
@RiponAlWasim UserAndPassword refers to this class - https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/security/UserAndPassword.html – SurrealAnalysis Apr 26 '16 at 19:59
OK. Thanks SurrealAnalysis – Ripon Al Wasim Apr 27 '16 at 05:54
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`alert.authenticateUsing` doesn't exist in .Net library – Yar Jun 03 '16 at 15:19
Has anybody got any good resources on how to do this with Python bindings? – gtlambert Jul 22 '17 at 11:21
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Got removed https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/commits/master/java/client/src/org/openqa/selenium/Alert.java – Bhabani Sankar Mishra Nov 21 '17 at 05:41
How to use this in C#? There's no method .AuthenticateUsing for Alert. – Frank H. Mar 15 '18 at 08:57
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This feature has been removed in latest selenium version. However it is available in v2.53.0 as I can see. – Prasanta Biswas Apr 03 '18 at 05:27

score 36 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 25 '17 at 04:44

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Don't use firefox profile and try below code:

driver.get("http://UserName:Password@Example.com");

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:password@example.com

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answered Jun 19 '14 at 11:35

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@Imen: try to add an `/` at the end of the url (see my answer) – Ralph Oct 09 '14 at 13:30
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You could also use- `driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://UserName:Password@Example.com")`. This worked for me – Mr. Blond Sep 02 '15 at 11:12
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so what if there is an @-sign in my password. Because there is an @-sign in my password. – badp Jun 08 '16 at 14:19
@badp in this case replace @ with %40 in password only. It's url encoding. – Artem A Mar 24 '17 at 10:30
This does not work in either a normal browser or a Selenium-powered one. – Cerin Apr 26 '18 at 20:43
for passwords or username containing special characters like @ or : you might have to urlencode the url. checkout https://www.urlencoder.org/ – DeadDjangoDjoker Apr 29 '21 at 04:26

score 8 · Answer 3 · edited May 11 '18 at 09:20

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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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answered Mar 15 '18 at 09:51

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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. – Gonzague Oct 25 '18 at 09:48
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not for me unfortunately. I get : Step failed org.openqa.selenium.NoAlertPresentException: no such alert – Bastien Gallienne Oct 31 '22 at 15:07

score 7 · Answer 4 · edited Jul 03 '15 at 14:19

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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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answered Jul 03 '15 at 02:05

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AutoIt is a primitive shame. Why does Selenium Driver not implement this important feature? – Elmue May 16 '17 at 17:38
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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. – ibaralf Oct 24 '18 at 22:20

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Mar 10 '16 at 15:44

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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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score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 31 '20 at 17:15

Popular solution is to append username and password in URL, like, http://username:password@website.com. 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);

score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 31 '20 at 06:50

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

score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 06 '16 at 19:32

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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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As I have read CNTLM does not work with HTTPS. This makes it completely usless for me. https://sourceforge.net/p/cntlm/support-requests/14. Apart from that CNTLM is a dead project. Bugreports have no answers since 2012. – Elmue May 16 '17 at 18:34

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