Custom headers in Phantomjs Selenium WebDriver

Question

According to this it is possible now to modify headers. Atm i need to modify Accept-Language in PhantomJS webdriver. This code doesn't work

DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.Accept-Language'] = 'ru-RU'
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()

Is it possible somehow to configure Phantomjs to send my header? i don't care where: inside ghostdriver, phantomjs or phantomjs-webdriver.

Answer 1

The latest version (1.9.1) of PhantomJS is release Jun/5/2013. The pull request is merged Jun/23/2013.

If you are using 1.9.1 version of PhantomJS, custom headers will not work.

You have to build phantomjs yourself or wait until phantomjs merge ghostdriver changes and release new version.

• Clone PhantomJS repository
• Clone ghostdriver repository
• copy ghostdriver/src/* to phantomjs/src/ghostdriver recursively
• build phantomjs

Using newly build phantomjs I got following result:

from selenium import webdriver

webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.Accept-Language'] = 'ru-RU'
driver = webdriver.PhantomJS()
driver.get('http://httpbin.org/headers')
print(driver.page_source)

---

...
{
  "headers": {
    "Connection": "close",
    "Host": "httpbin.org",
    "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
    "Accept-Language": "ru-RU",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Unknown; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) PhantomJS/1.10.0 (development) Safari/534.34",
    "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"
  }
 ...

UPDATE

Use PhantomJS 1.9.2+.

Answer 2

I write a full example to set all headers , window size and proxy in selenium phantomjs:

from selenium import webdriver

def init_phantomjs_driver(*args, **kwargs):

    headers = { 'Accept':'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8',
        'Accept-Language':'zh-CN,zh;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3',
        'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0',
        'Connection': 'keep-alive'
    }

    for key, value in headers.iteritems():
        webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.customHeaders.{}'.format(key)] = value

    webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.PHANTOMJS['phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent'] = 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36'

    driver =  webdriver.PhantomJS(*args, **kwargs)
    driver.set_window_size(1400,1000)

    return driver


def main():
    service_args = [
        '--proxy=127.0.0.1:9999',
        '--proxy-type=http',
        '--ignore-ssl-errors=true'
        ]

    driver = init_phantomjs_driver(service_args=service_args)

    driver.get('http://cn.bing.com')

Note:

userAgent is set in phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent instead of phantomjs.page.customHeaders