Search⌘ K
AI Features

Bypassing Authentications

Explore methods to bypass basic and NTLM authentication dialogs in Selenium WebDriver. Learn to embed credentials in URLs and configure Firefox to use profiles with the AutoAuth extension for seamless automated login during testing.

Bypassing basic authentication by embedding username and password in URL

Authentication dialogs (given below) can be troublesome for automated testing.

One simple way to get past basic or NTLM authentication dialogs is by prefixing username and password in the URL as:

driver = new webdriver.Builder().forBrowser('fir
...