Want WatiN to bypass FireFox Authentication Requir

Question

The test is running on a windows network that requires proxy (squid) authentication to access external websites, say www.google.com for sake of example.

Some background things to note

• These sites cannot be added to the proxy white list.

• Same WatiN test passes in IE

• I have tried tweaking about:config ntlm settings to allow automatic passing of saved credentials

• www.google.com has been added to Local Intranet sites

• WatiN cannot use LogonDialogHandler to deal with this, like IE can

The title of the dialog is Authentication Required and reads The proxy myproxy:8080 is requesting a user name and password. The site says "", with a text field for User Name: and Password:

Has anyone got any ideas of how to get around this?

I'm hoping there is something FireFox specific that will allow me to automatically pass through the credentials. An idea I might try is starting the browser with network credentials.

Answer 1

Maybe one of the settings here will help:

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Integrated_Authentication

EDIT:

This will be fixed in Firefox 4:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521467

Answer 2

Here are some references that might offer other solutions to get around the logon dialog.

In this post they solved it using WindowsAutomation:

WatiN LogonDialogHandlers not working correctly in Windows 7

This solution passes the credentials in the url:

how to impersonate a windows domain user for automated web testing?

And this solution uses impersonation:

Watin Windows Authentication

You could also use FiddlerCore to manipulate the response to the server:

How to simulate http request using WatiN with specific HTTP referrer and query string?

HTH, Jeroen