Question

I’m attempting to use selenium to automate some browser-based data entry. The target URL is HTTPS, but it’s an actual public website and not a self-signed cert. I’m running the following code:

from selenium import selenium
import unittest, time, re

class python_2_remote_control(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.verificationErrors = []
        self.selenium = selenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", "https://actualurl")
        self.selenium.start()

    def test_python_2_remote_control(self):
        sel = self.selenium
        sel.type("id=loginid", "etc.")
        more...

The proxy loads, but the actual URL never seems to load in it, any my first command to login fails. Any sense of what could be failing?

Answer 1

If your https requires a certificate you will need an own selenium firefox profile which accepted the certificate.

Google how to use custom firefox profiles within selenium.

The server command line:

java -jar selenium-server.jar -log SeleniumServer.log -firefoxProfileTemplate "C:\ffprofile" -trustAllSSLCertificates