How do you automate login with Selenium? We'll show you every step of the way in this first installment of Selenium 101 with CrossBrowserTesting. For the first of the series, we’re starting at the very beginning by showing you how to automate a simple login process with Selenium using.

I have a very simple selenium-webdriver script. I would like to do HTTP authentication using webdriver. Avast antivirus mac edition. Script: WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(); driver.get('driver.findElement(By.id('displayImage')).click(); Thread.sleep(2000); driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys('httpwatch'); Issue: driver.switchTo().alert().sendKeys('httpwatch'); throws org.openqa.selenium.NoAlertPresentException: No alert is present Question: • Does Webdriver find only an alert dialog as alert? • What are my options to automate this without using AutoIt OR username:password @somesite EDIT Alert has below method and does not seem to have been implemented yet.

Driver.switchTo().alert().authenticateUsing(new UsernameAndPassword('username','password')). The problem is that this is not a javascript popup hence you cannot manipulate it via selenium's alert(). If both AutoIt and submitting credentials in the URL (the easiest option - just open up and click 'Display Image') are not options for you, another approach could be to use to automatically submit the previously saved credentials: AutoAuth automatically submits HTTP authentication dialogs when you’ve chosen to have the browser save your login information. (If you’ve already told the browser what your username and password are, and you’ve told it to remember that username and password, why not just have it automatically submit it instead of asking you each time?) Following the answer suggested in thread: • Install AutoAuth Firefox plugin; • Visit the site where the authentication is needed.

The Basic/NTLM authentication pop-up is a browser dialog window. WebDriver (Selenium 2.0) cannot interact with such dialog windows. The reason for this is because WebDriver aims solely at mimicking user interaction with websites, and browser dialog windows are currently not in that scope. JavaScript dialog windows, are part of the website, so WebDriver can handle those. In Selenium 1.0 it is possible to do basic authentication. So how to solve this issue? 1) Authentication via URL 2) Use a browser plugin that will handle the Basic/NTLM autentication 3) Use a local proxy that will modify the request header and pass along the username/password and 4) Make use of a robot, like AutoIt, or some Java library.

Option 1: is the easiest and has the least impact on the system/test. Option 2: has a high browser impact as your loading plugins. Also every browser uses its own plugin and it's possible that the required plugin for a certain browser is not available.

Option 3: Works well with HTTP, but HTTPS requires custom certicates thus not always an option. Not much impact on both system and test. Option 4: Mimics keyboard presses, its a go to solution but prone to errors.