How to do Basic Authentication using FireWatir on Ubuntu Linux?
- by lotharsmash
Hi,
I'm trying to use FireWatir (1.6.5) to access a site using Basic
Authentication and I've been unable to find a solution that works on
Firefox in Linux. Does FireWatir 1.6.5 support Basic Authentication
on Linux? I've been searching the web for 2 days and can't get a
straight answer anywhere as to how to do this.
The only thread I found that seemed helpful was this one (
http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general/browse_thread/thread/d8ab9a177d282ce4/fc1bf2319fb387d8?lnk=gst&q=basic+authentication#fc1bf2319fb387d8).
Aedorn Varanis says " Angrez's fork had the solution so I'm using that
now. Thanks Angrez, works perfectly!", but he doesn't mention what he
did to get things working.
Initially I tried to bypass the authentication dialog box by using:
browser.goto('http://admin:[email protected]')
However, this generates a "Confirm" dialog which says:
"You are about to log in to the site "172.20.1.1" with the username
"admin"." [Cancel, OK]
This dialog blocks, and the goto call won't return until I click "OK".
Then I tried adding:
browser.startClicker("ok")
browser.goto('http://admin:[email protected]')
But this ALSO generates the same "Confirm" dialog.
I tested out the startClicker functionality using the unit test /var/
lib/gems/1.8/gems/firewatir-1.6.5/unittests/html/JavascriptClick.html
and it worked fine, which makes me think that using the startClicker
method is NOT the correct way to take care of the Confirm dialog.
Anybody else found a way to get Basic Auth to work, or how to click
the OK on the confirm dialog? I'm at my wits end...
