Bypass "External protocol request" popup during selenium automation

Question

I'm running an automation on mac and on ubunto (using cucumber, selenium web driver, junit)

during the automation I click a link with non http protocol

an "External protocol request" popup appears.

It blocks my test from testing the rest of the webpage.

How can I bypass it easily?

I have thought maybe to write a jar that does nothing and then register it to this external protocol, but it won't help as this popup will still appear.

Maybe using another browser can help?

Any other suggestions?

Answer 1

I am using chromedriver with selenium and python. I encountered same problem and following code worked for me-

driver.execute_script("window.confirm = function(msg) { return true; }")

prefs = {"protocol_handler.excluded_schemes":{"afp":True,"data":True,"disk":True,"disks":True,"file":True,"hcp":True,"intent":True, "itms-appss":True, "itms-apps":True,"itms":True,"market":True,"javascript":True,"mailto":True,"ms-help":True,"news":True,"nntp":True,"shell":True,"sip":True,"snews":False,"vbscript":True,"view-source":True,"vnd":{"ms":{"radio":True}}}}    

chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs)

Let's say you want to suppress protocol handler popup for links starting with "sip://"
Just add an extra entry as "sip":True in "protocol_handler.excluded_schemes"