Question

I’m using watir-webdriver to drive IE to test a website using a SSL certificate for another website. (the production version of same website)

When I visit my site, I get a page that looks like this (Since the security certificate is bad)

The watir documentation has a workaround for this http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Security+Alerts
my_browser.link(:id, “overridelink”).click

When I try to run this in the ruby console, I get an error.

irb(main):050:0> b.link(:id, "overridelink").click
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnexpectedJavascriptError: Unable to find element with xpath == .//a[@id='overridelink']
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:45:in `assert_ok'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in `initialize'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:54:in `new'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:54:in `create_response'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:64:in `request'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:35:in `call'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:410:in `raw_execute'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:388:in `execute'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:356:in `find_element_by'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/search_context.rb:41:in `find_element'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:86:in `find_first_by_multiple'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:33:in `locate'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:263:in `locate'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:245:in `assert_exists'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:65:in `click'
        from (irb):50
        from :0irb(main):051:0>

When you look at the html for the error page, the continue link is definitely there.

<tr>
<td >&nbsp;</td>
<td id="continueToSiteAlign" align="left" valign="middle">
    <h4 id="continueToSite">
        <img src="red_shield.png" ID="ImgOverride" border="0" alt="Not recommended icon" class="actionIcon"><A href='' ID="overridelink" NAME="overridelink" >Continue to this website (not recommended).</A>
    </h4>
    </td>
</tr>

Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

Answer 1

There is no way to avoid this automatically as far as I know with Watir-WebDriver.

The solution is to make sure IE doesn’t care about this error:

1. Tools and select Internet Options
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Scroll down and uncheck Warn about certificate address mismatch