How To Perform NTLM authentication using IE or FF driver

[Rohit]

Hi All,

how to perform NTLM authentication when i use either IE or FF.

I went through the following discussion however none of them mentioned
how to perform NTLM when using other driver like IE or FF

http://groups.google.com/group/webdriver/browse_thread/thread/92d21622ce66d264/e233dea522978096?lnk=gst&q=NTLM#e233dea522978096

http://groups.google.com/group/webdriver/browse_thread/thread/c2261389c80c8498/96d4af00246db9cc?lnk=gst&q=NTLM#96d4af00246db9cc

Rohit

[Simon Stewart]

The short answer is that it's not possible ATM. We plan on adding the
ability to authenticate as a particular user at some point, but we're
working on other areas of the API first, so unless someone picks this
task up, it'll take a while until we get there.

Simon

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[bill shelton]

The good news is that using the IE driver, NTLM challenge-response
will be performed automatically on behalf of the currently logged-in
user or possibly the NT user which starts the JVM running the tests?
The bad news is that you may need to test different logins, users, and
roles, which I suspect could be a bit messy.

Firefox is, of course, a different story.You can manually enable
automatic NTLM authentication via the about:config -> (filter == ntlm)
command and setting the "network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris" and
"network.ntlm.send-lm-response" properties. These alter the profile by
changing the prefs.js file. I wonder if these could be set using the
org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile.setPreference(...)?

best,
bill

On Dec 29, 8:26 am, Simon Stewart <simon.m.stew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The short answer is that it's not possible ATM. We plan on adding the
> ability to authenticate as a particular user at some point, but we're
> working on other areas of the API first, so unless someone picks this
> task up, it'll take a while until we get there.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Rohit <rohit.mau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
>
> > how to perform NTLM authentication when i use either IE or FF.
>
> > I went through the following discussion however none of them mentioned
> > how to perform NTLM when using other driver like IE or FF
>

> >http://groups.google.com/group/webdriver/browse_thread/thread/92d2162...
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/webdriver/browse_thread/thread/c226138...

[Simon Stewart]

Setting a value using "FirefoxProfile.setPreference()" is the same as
going to "about:config" and modifying the value there.

Regards,

Simon

[bill shelton]

Excellent, Simon. Thanks!

Then it should be possible to implement some form of automatic NTLM
authentication with the Firefox driver for the currently logged in
user (or the user who starts the JVM); e.g.,

FirefoxProfile.setPreference("network.automatic-ntlm-
auth.trusteduris", "server1,server2,serverN,...");
FirefoxProfile.setPreference("network.ntlm.send-lm-response", true)

bill