I was asking myself if Selenium has any possibilities to secure the communication in Selenium Grid for example. As far as I know Selenium communicates via JSON and Selenese commands. But it is not encrypted. Are there any possibilities to encrypt the communication?
Thanks a lot.
Quick hack: make an ssh tunnel.
Forward remote server's port 4444 as a local port using following ssh command:
ssh user@remotesrv -L 4444:127.0.0.1:4444
Now when you connect to your local port 4444, it actually connects to your server's port 4444 on a secure link. Refer to this link for tutorial.
Afterwards, just open the remote web driver as you normally do.
This will now be on a secure link.
You would have to run your own SSL proxy in front of the hub and the nodes. It is presumed that you aren't publicly exposing your grid.