Basic HTTP authentication and Webdriver

I encountered an interesting problem last week.

I had to make an automated test scripts on a test site which was protected by Basic HTTP Authentication.

I’ll assume that everybody knows how Basic HTTP Authentication works and will just focus on the solution:

 WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();

 driver.get("http://username:password@URL");

Of course you should change the username, password and URL strings to your data .

To pass the basic http authentication in firefox, you have to set a browser preference during the driver creation.

 FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();

 profile.SetPreference("network.http.phishy-userpass-length", 255);

 driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

 driver.get("http://username:password@URL");