How to handle basic url authentication using selenium in Safari browser

Question

In chrome below solution is working:

driver.get("https://username:password@something.com");

In firefox below solution is working:

driver.get("https://username:password@something.com);

and then:

driver.get("http://something.com");

In safari both of the above solutions are not working. I have also tried with Alert class in selenium. Googled a lot, still did not find any solution working. Any solution which can be used across all browsers would be awesome ;), solution for safari alone is also fine. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Neither of these approaches is expected to work; browsers have stopped accepting user:password for Basic Authentication, so it doesn't work under WebDriver control either. The WebDriver Working Group is aware of this functionality gap but hasn't proposed a solution yet :(