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pirphesdercia
pirphesdercia

Reputation: 13

headless browser with basic authentication

I want to use a headless browser to test a website in an internal network. The site makes use of basic authentication rather than a login page though so I've thus far been using something like https://username:[email protected] to access the site with my scripts.

I tried looking but is there any headless browser that supports using something like that as a URL?

I'm currently using HtmlUnitDriver with Selenium but it appears to not be working. When using the Firefox Driver, I'm able to log in just fine but I'm apparently getting 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials when I try using HtmlUnitDriver.

For reference, I'm just using a simple driver.get(url) to open the page.

HtmlUnitDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();
String url = "https://"+ uName + ":" + uPassword + "@" + testEnvironment;
driver.get(url);
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1708

Answers (2)

browserless
browserless

Reputation: 2132

I believe both puppeteer and nightmare allow you to use basic authentication and even proxies. I’d give either of those a shot

Upvotes: 0

juan garcia
juan garcia

Reputation: 1516

I made this boiler plate for headless browser testing, it actually uses istanbul for coverage, coverall, and karma with karma saucelabs.

https://github.com/jotaoncode/web-istanbul

But it is using javascript Ecma5 not 6 if you are using Ecma6 you need to go for babelify too. As headless browser it is using PhantomJs2. This is the compatiblity table for PhantomJS2

http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es5/#phantom

I need more info about the issue in order to reproduce the case.

Upvotes: 0

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