Webdriver and proxy server for firefox

Question

are there any ways to set firefox's proxy settings? I found here information about FoxyProxy but when Selenium works, plugins are unactivated in window.

Answer 1

There is another solution, i looked for because a had problems with code like this (it s set the system proxy in firefox):

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.http", "localhost");
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.http_port", "8080");
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

I prefer this solution, it force the proxy manual setting in firefox. To do that, use the org.openqa.selenium.Proxy object to setup Firefox :

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
localhostProxy.setProxyType(Proxy.ProxyType.MANUAL);
localhostProxy.setHttpProxy("localhost:8080");
profile.setProxyPreferences(localhostProxy);
driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

if it could help...

Answer 2

Here's a java example using DesiredCapabilities. I used it for pumping selenium tests into jmeter. (was only interested in HTTP requests)

import org.openqa.selenium.Proxy;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

String myProxy = "localhost:7777";  //example: proxy host=localhost port=7777
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY,
                           new Proxy().setHttpProxy(myProxy));
WebDriver webDriver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities); 

Answer 3

Firefox Proxy: JAVA

String PROXY = "localhost:8080";

org.openqa.selenium.Proxy proxy = new org.openqa.selenium.Proxy();

proxy.setHttpProxy(PROXY)setFtpProxy(PROXY).setSslProxy(PROXY);

DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();

cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy); 

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(cap);

Answer 4

Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Connection (Configure how Firefox connects to the Internet)

Answer 5

For PAC based urls

 Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
 proxy.setProxyType(Proxy.ProxyType.PAC);
 proxy.setProxyAutoconfigUrl("http://some-server/staging.pac");
 DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
 capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);
 return new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

I hope this could help.

Answer 6

Just to add to the above given solutions.,

Adding the list of possibilities (integer values) for the "network.proxy.type".

0 - Direct connection (or) no proxy. 

1 - Manual proxy configuration

2 - Proxy auto-configuration (PAC).

4 - Auto-detect proxy settings.

5 - Use system proxy settings. 

So, Based on our requirement, the "network.proxy.type" value should be set as mentioned below.

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);