Selenium - Basic Authentication via url

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In my Selenium-Test (with chromedriver-2.24) I'm trying to access my webpage via basic authentication with the following statement: 

WebDriver driver  = ...;
driver.get("http://admin:admin@localhost:8080/project/");

But Google Chrome gives me the following warning in the console:

[Deprecation] Subresource requests whose URLs contain embedded credentials (e.g. https://user:pass@host/) are blocked. See https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5669008342777856 for more details.

In the tagged link is mentioned that the support was dropped:

Drop support for embedded credentials in subresource requests. (removed)

My question now is, is there an other way to basic-authenticate from Selenium?

NOTE: this has not helped: How to Handle HTTP Basic Auth headers in Selenium Webdriver using Java ?

selenium-webdriver selenium google-chrome basic-authentication java
6 Answers

Florent B.'s approach of calling .get on the URL twice worked for me with a slight modification. In JS:

driver
        .get('http://admin:admin@localhost:8080')
        .then( () => driver.get('http://localhost:8080') )

working on google chrome 62.0.3202.94 with ChromeDriver 2.33.506092 and the approach seems compatible with firefox 56.0.2 with geckodriver 0.19.1, and phantomjs 2.1.1 all under Debian linux 9.

What I believe is happening is the first call sets up the Authorization header sent by the browser. The second call removes the credentials from the URL and the credentials no longer are applied to subresources. The then synchronizes the two requests ensuring order.

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user_51184650

Selenium 4 supports basic authentication

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
HasAuthentication authentication = (HasAuthentication) driver;
authentication.register(() -> new UsernameAndPassword("username", "pwd"));
driver.get("your-site.com");

https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2021/a-tour-of-4-authentication/

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Such Basic authentication will not be supported directly using the selenium driver.get(URL) method to load a URL prompting for authentication within a JavaScript Popup, I was also stuck here for a long time. It's because of Chrome driver will not allow such authentication techniques after the update 59 (probably). There are still backdoors via Selenium using the JavaScript engine in the browser to load such URLs.

driver.get("https://www.google.com");
JavascriptExecutor jse = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
URL = "https://username:password@www.example.com";
jse.executeScript("window.open('"+URL+"')");
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