Handling Browser Authentication using Selenium

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EDIT in 2015:

This answer is outdated. WebDriver nowadays supports authentication! See How to handle authentication popup with Selenium WebDriver using Java

Original answer:

This is not handled very well by Selenium.

You can try using http://username:[email protected]/yourpage

instead of just http://example.com/yourpage

However, as far as I know, Firefox will still pop up a browser dialog requesting a confirmation.

You can try Robot if you’re using Java (or any similar tool like AutoIt).

You could use driver.manage().addCookie() if you’re using WebDriver.

Or a custom FirefoxProfile that has already passed the authentication once.

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