How do I get selenium-webdriver to ignore SSL errors in Firefox and PhantomJS?

Question

Given these Node dependencies:

{
    "chromedriver": "^2.24.1",
    "cucumber": "^1.3.0",
    "geckodriver": "^1.1.2",
    "phantomjs-prebuilt": "^2.1.12",
    "selenium-webdriver": "^3.0.0-beta-2"
} 

I would like PhantomJS and Firefox to ignore SSL certificates. Here is how my browser.js looks:

require('geckodriver');

// main browser object
var browserHandle;

// load selenium webdriver and some rules
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'), 
    By = webdriver.By, 
    until = webdriver.until;

// load phantomjs into webdriver capabilities
var phantomjs_exe = require('phantomjs-prebuilt').path;
var customPhantom = webdriver.Capabilities.phantomjs();
customPhantom.set("phantomjs.binary.path", phantomjs_exe);

webdriver.Builder()
    //.forBrowser('firefox')
    //.forBrowser('phantomjs')
    .withCapabilities(customPhantom)
    .build();

Any suggestions with --ignore-ssl-errors=yes? How can I implement it in the code? I want to use only JavaScript, rather than Java.

Answer 1

This is only for Javascript / Node.js Selenium Webdriverjs case, only MacOS solution.

1. Firefox case:

   a. Setup a new Profile using the Profile Manager for Firefox.

   • Open the Profile Manager with /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P (-profilemanager, this works as well)
   • Click "Create Profile"
   • In the second Step of creation, the Path to the Profile File is displayed. Copy it!

   b. Add the ffprofile File

   • Go to features/support
   • Add a new File "ffprofile.json"
   • add { "ffprofile": "<profilePath>"} to the file, where <profilePath> is the Path you copied in a.

   c. Add your local system to the Profile

   • Open the Profile Manager again with /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P
   • Select your new Profile, click "Start Firefox"
   • In the Browser, go to your https://.... You should see a Page telling you there is a Problem with the certificate
   • Click on "Advanced" -> "Add Exception" -> "Confirm Security Exception"

   d. Add this into your browser.js or where you call a browser programmatically:

   var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'), 
   firefox = require('selenium-webdriver/firefox'),
   
   var ffProfileFile = require('./ffprofile');
   var ffProfile = new firefox.Profile(ffProfileFile['ffprofile']);
   var ffOptions = new firefox.Options().setProfile(ffProfile);
   
   return browserHandle = new firefox.Driver(ffOptions);
   

2. Phantomjs case ( I have got two solutions here, pick up the one which is better for you):

   solution 1:

   var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'), 
   phantom = require('phantomjs-prebuilt');
   
   var capabilities = webdriver.Capabilities.phantomjs();
   capabilities.set(webdriver.Capability.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
   capabilities.set(webdriver.Capability.SECURE_SSL, false);
   capabilities.set("phantomjs.cli.args",
                    ["--web-security=no",
                     "--ssl-protocol=any", 
                     "--ignore-ssl-errors=yes"]
                   );
   return browserHandle = new webdriver
   .Builder()
   .withCapabilities(capabilities)
   .build();
   

   solution 2:

   var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver'), 
   phantom = require('phantomjs-prebuilt');
   
   var capabilities = {
       'browserName' : 'phantomjs',
       'phantomjs.cli.args': ['--ignore-ssl-errors=true',
           '--ssl-protocol=any', '--web-security=false']
   }
   return browserHandle = new webdriver
   .Builder()
   .withCapabilities(capabilities)
   .build();
   

   for this one the 'phantomjs.cli.args': ['--ignore-ssl-errors=true'] did the job for me.

Hope it will be useful for you.

Answer 2

For Firefox, you can use the following code:

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().withCapabilities(Capabilities.firefox()
.set("acceptInsecureCerts", true)).build();