Protractor - invalid SSL certificate

Question

We have an application and testing this locally shows an invalid SSL certificate warning. Normally I would just add an exception and get on with it. However is there anyway for protractor to ignore this?

I've seen some capabilities in selenium where SSL can be ignored but can't seem to find any in protractor.

Answer 1

This works for me, (in conf file):

capabilities: {
    browserName : 'firefox',
    marionette : true,
    acceptInsecureCerts : true
}

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome',
    chromeOptions: {
        // for ci test
        args: ['--headless', 'no-sandbox', "--disable-browser-side-navigation",
            "--allow-insecure-localhost"
            /// for https sites: ignore ssl on https://localhost...
            /// further args please see https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
        ]
    }
}

maybe you want to take some screenshots to test where the error occurs

import fs from 'fs';

function writeScreenShot(data, filename) {
    const stream = fs.createWriteStream(filename);
    stream.write(new Buffer(data, 'base64'));
    stream.end();
}

export function takeScreenshot(browser, path){
    browser.takeScreenshot().then((png) => {
        writeScreenShot(png, path);
    });
}

But for the long run, I would suggest migrating to cypress (https://www.cypress.io/), because it have many other features out of the box: video, screenshot, etc. And believe me, it is worth it ;)