Proxy server settings

[Paul Allen]

I am using WebDriver at a client site that uses a proxy server for
Internet access. The browsers (IE & FF) are configured to use the
proxy server. However, how do I configure WebDriver so that it can
deal with the corporate proxy server authentication (userid and
password)?

I suspect that this is an issue that I am encountering when I try the
GoogleTest example. Here is the console output:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException:
org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at
character 0 of
at com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.Response.<init>(Response.java:27)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.internal.AbstractExtensionConnection.nextResponse(AbstractExtensionConnection.java:
197)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.internal.AbstractExtensionConnection.readLoop(AbstractExtensionConnection.java:
162)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.internal.AbstractExtensionConnection.waitForResponseFor(AbstractExtensionConnection.java:
155)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.internal.AbstractExtensionConnection.sendMessageAndWaitForResponse(AbstractExtensionConnection.java:
126)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.sendMessage(FirefoxDriver.java:
257)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.sendMessage(FirefoxDriver.java:
253)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.fixId(FirefoxDriver.java:
264)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:
113)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:
69)
at
com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:
61)
at com.sp.utils.webdriver.GoogleSuggest.main(GoogleSuggest.java:14)
Caused by: org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with
'{' at character 0 of
at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:450)
at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:179)
at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:326)
at com.googlecode.webdriver.firefox.Response.<init>(Response.java:15)
... 11 more

Thanks,
Paul

[Simon Stewart]

Hi Paul,

How you set the proxy is very much dependant on the browser. IE and
Safari will both use the same proxy that they normally do. If you're
using a preprepared profile in the Firefox driver then if you've set
the proxy already, it'll use whatever you've configured for that.
Otherwise:

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.addAdditionalPreference("network.proxy.http", '\"your.proxy.server\"");
profile.addAdditionalPreference("network.proxy.http_port", "8080");
profile.addAdditionalPreference("network.proxy.proxy.type", "1");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);

I'm not sure how the HtmlUnit driver can be configured once it's
instantiated, but you can always override the "newWebClient()" method
completely:

new HtmlUnitDriver() {
protected WebClient newWebClient() {
WebClient client = new WebClient(
BrowserVersion.INTERNET_EXPLORER_7_0,
"proxy host",
8080);
client.setThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode(true);
client.setJavaScriptEnabled(false);
client.setRedirectEnabled(true);
try {
client.setUseInsecureSSL(true);
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
return client;
}
};

If there's demand for it, we can provide a mechanism to set the proxy
in a slightly more user-friendly fashion.

Regards,

Simon