Handling Browser Authentication using Selenium

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This answer is outdated.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:password@example.com/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.

I spent days on this - literally.Trying to get past browser level authentication within my company network to hit an application.The solution was to use the 'unsername:password@' component within the URL, BUT to add a forward slash at the end of the login URL.

So total login URL looks like this (note the '/' after yourpage):

http://username:password@example.com/yourpage/

Works with Watir, Capybara and Selenium Webdriver.

Everything I have read on the Web didn't help me. So before making a request, like this:

driver.get(url);

you have to run a new thread like this:

RunScript runScript = new RunScript();runScript.start();

In this case you are free to input login and password on another thread of follwing class

public class RunScript extends Thread {@Overridepublic void run() {    try {        File file = new File("D:\\jacob-1.18-x86.dll");        System.setProperty(LibraryLoader.JACOB_DLL_PATH, file.getAbsolutePath());        AutoItX autoIt = new AutoItX();        Thread.sleep(2000);        autoIt.winActivate("yourWindowName", "");        autoIt.winWaitActive("yourWindowName");        if (autoIt.winExists("yourWindowName")) {            autoIt.send("username{TAB}", false);            autoIt.send("password{Enter}", false);            }        }    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {        //    }}}