Question

I’m using selenium-webdriver with ruby to write automated tests.

Chrome and the chromedriver binary work really well, but I have an issue with Firefox that is related to the configuration of the browser and that’s making my tests fail, whereas they pass with Chrome.

When executing the tests in Firefox, sometimes I get an alert with this message:

Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is
to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by
a third party

And it breaks the execution. Is there a way of disabling this warning in recent Firefox versions (10+) or handling this behavior with Selenium?

Answer 1

In the process of finding a solution for this, I think I might have found a bug in Capybara (v1.1.2).

I managed to get around this problem using the following approach, instead of using the click from capybara (which would not allow me to capture an exception), I started using the click method from selenium-webdriver.

It seems that when Firefox triggers this alertbox, a string with the message

Although this page is encrypted, the information you have entered is
to be sent over an unencrypted connection and could easily be read by
a third party

is returned as a result of object.native.click, otherwise the string

ok

is returned.

# Define the click method in ruby and call it when you're executing a 'click'

  # Public: Click the object.
  #
  # object - Capybara::Node::Element object to click.
  def click object
    return_string = object.native.click
    check_firefox_alertbox if return_string == "ok"
  end

  def check_firefox_alertbox
    if @current_browser == :firefox 
     @session.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept
    end
  rescue Exception => e
    puts e
  end