Handling Windows NTLM authentication with Selenium WebDriver

Question

I am trying to run selenium web driver(Firefox) test cases against a web application which uses NTLM authentication protocol.

I used DesiredCapabilities to update the "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" value with " http://localhost:8080 " in order to avoid the display of the authentication window.

The "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" value is updated but in browser it is still empty.

Questions:

1. How can I set the "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" value?
2. What is the best way to solve this issue?

Please check the Screenshot and the Code below for more details.

Thanks in advance.

public RemoteWebDriver getWebDriverObject(DesiredCapabilities capabilities) {
        String os = SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS ? "windows" : "linux";
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "target/test-classes/selenium_standalone_binaries/" + os + "/marionette/64bit/geckodriver.exe");

        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();

        // check the "Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris value before update"
        System.out.println("Capability before update >>>>>" + capabilities.getCapability("Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris"));

        // update the "Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris value" after update
        capabilities.setCapability("Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "http://localhost:8080");

        // check the "Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris value after update"
        System.out.println("Capability after update >>>>>" + capabilities.getCapability("Network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris"));

        options.merge(capabilities);
        options.setHeadless(HEADLESS);

        return new FirefoxDriver(options);
    }

Answer 1

The problem is solved. I have to user FirefoxProfile to overwrite all browser config values.

Please check this for more details.

public RemoteWebDriver getWebDriverObject(DesiredCapabilities capabilities) {
        String os = SystemUtils.IS_OS_WINDOWS ? "windows" : "linux";
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "target/test-classes/selenium_standalone_binaries/" + os + "/marionette/64bit/geckodriver.exe");

        FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions();
        options.merge(capabilities);
        options.setHeadless(HEADLESS);

        FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
        profile.setPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris", "http://localhost:8080");
        profile.setPreference("dom.disable_beforeunload", false);

        options.setProfile(profile);
        options.setLogLevel(FirefoxDriverLogLevel.DEBUG);
        return new FirefoxDriver(options);
    }