Nightwatch: setting credentials for http basic auth is ignored?

Created on 12 Feb 2017 · 5Comments · Source: nightwatchjs/nightwatch

I've got a selenium hub running at https://admin:[email protected]

The following configuration should set basic auth headers (I tried to figure this out from the source):

  "test_settings" : {
    "default" : {
      "selenium_port"  : 443,
      "selenium_host"  : "selenium.myhost.com",
      "use_ssl": true,
      "credentials": {
        "username": "admin",
        "key": "secret"
      },

But it doesn't work:

Running:  Demo test Google
Error processing the server response:
 <html><body><h1>401 Unauthorized</h1>
You need a valid user and password to access this content.
</body></html>

Anyone?

Source

matti

Most helpful comment

You're configuration is wrong. It should be:

"test_settings" : {
    "default" : {
      "username": "admin",
      "access_key": "secret"
   }
},

https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/blob/master/bin/nightwatch.json#L48

beatfactor on 17 Mar 2017

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All 5 comments

The way I deal with this issue is by setting credentials in the launch URL. So something like

"test_settings": {
    "default": {
      "launch_url": "https://username:[email protected]",
      ...
    }
}

mattpardee on 4 Mar 2017

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You're configuration is wrong. It should be:

"test_settings" : {
    "default" : {
      "username": "admin",
      "access_key": "secret"
   }
},

https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/blob/master/bin/nightwatch.json#L48

beatfactor on 17 Mar 2017

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@mattpardee How do you handle this in the url if the password contains spaces? i.e "test test test". Idk why but it is not working for me when specifying in test settings.