How to handle windows authentication popup in Robot Framework RIDE?

Question

Windows authentication popup of my application appears similar to this app https://www.engprod-charter.net/ I had used below code to handle window authentication popup in selenium using python.

from selenium import webdriver
import time
import win32com.client

driver=webdriver.Firefox()
driver.maximize_window()
driver.get('https://www.engprod-charter.net/')
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")   
shell.Sendkeys("username")  
shell.Sendkeys("{TAB}")
shell.Sendkeys("password@123") 
time.sleep(5)
shell.Sendkeys("{ENTER}")
time.sleep(2)
driver.quit()

But since I am using python 2.7.12 for Robot Framework, it seems win32com.client is not supported there. I want to know what library I have to use in Robot Framework to handle this scenario.

I am not asking complete solution as this is not the correct approach in stackoverflow, just want a hint what should I try to handle my scenario. Thanks

Answer 1

You can achieve your scenario using AutoItLibrary which handles window inputs and similar things. Basically controlling the entire GUI not just the browser.

First install AutoItLibrary for Robot Framework

1. Make sure you have python installed for 32 bit(say python 2.7.6)
2. Install pywin32-217.win32-py2.7.exe for 32 bit from here
3. Download AutoItLibrary and unzip the folder
4. Open command prompt as Administrator and go to downloaded AautoItLibrary folder folder(cd...\AutoItLibrary-1.1.post1) and then write this command and hit enter python setup.py install

Now include AutoItLibrary in Robot Framework Let us know if this works, I would be interested to know