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Handling Authentication Window with WebDriver (In Firefox, Chrome and IE)

Category: Selenium WebDriver
To work with Basic Authentication pop-up (which is a browser dialogue window), you just need to send the user name and password along with the application URL.

#1 (Chrome & Firefox)
By passing user credentials in URL. Its simple, append your username and password with the URL.

e.g., http://Username:Password@SiteURL

http://rajkumar:myPassword@www.hireqa.co.in

#2 (IE)
First create AutoIt script as below and save it as basicauth.au3

To pass user name and password
WinWaitActive(""Windows Security"")
Send(""admin"")
Send(""{TAB}"")
Send(""admin"")
Send(""{ENTER}"")
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try {
                        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(""E:/basicauth.exe"");
                } catch (Exception e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }

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