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Handle Untrusted Certificate Selenium

Hello, Welcome to Selenium tutorial in this post we will see how to Handle Untrusted Certificate Selenium.

 

  • What is Untrusted SSL certificate? Whenever We try to access HTTPS website or application so many time you will face  untrusted SSL certificate issue. This issue comes in all browser like IE, Chrome,Safari, Firefox etc.

Handle Untrusted Certificate Selenium

2-       Why we get this certificate issues often?

 

Handle Untrusted Certificate Selenium

This certificates some in multiple conditions and we should know all of them so that we can rectify them easily.

1- Each secure site has Certificate so its certificate is not valid up-to-date.

2– Certificate has been expired on date

3– Certificate is only valid for (site name) 


4- The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown due to many reasons.

 

Handle Untrusted Certificate Selenium

Step 1-We have to create FirefoxProfile in Selenium.

Step 2- We have some predefined method in Selenium called setAcceptUntrustedCertificates() which accept Boolean values(true/false)- so we will make it true.

Step 3-Open Firefox browser with the above-created profile.

 

I have published video on the same.

 

Handle untrusted certificate in Firefox

 

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;

public class SSLCertificate {

public static void main(String[] args) {

//It create firefox profile
FirefoxProfile profile=new FirefoxProfile();

// This will set the true value
profile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);

// This will open  firefox browser using above created profile
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(profile);

driver.get("pass the url as per your requirement");


}

}

 

Since Firefox comes default browser in Selenium so for other browsers like Chrome, IE, Safari we have to use below technique.

Handle untrusted certificate in Chrome

 // Create object of DesiredCapabilities class
DesiredCapabilities cap=DesiredCapabilities.chrome();

// Set ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS  variable to true
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

// Set the driver path
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","Chrome driver path");

// Open browser with capability
WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver(cap);

 

Handle untrusted certificate in IE

// Create object of DesiredCapabilities class

DesiredCapabilities cap=DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();

// Set ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS  variable to true
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

// Set the driver path
System.setProperty("webdriver.ie.driver","IE driver path");

// Open browser with capability
WebDriver driver=newInternetExplorerDriver(cap);

  Handle untrusted certificate in Safari

// Create object of DesiredCapabilities class

DesiredCapabilities cap=DesiredCapabilities.safari();

// Set ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS  variable to true
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

// Set the driver path
System.setProperty("webdriver.safari.driver","Safari driver path");

// Open browser with capability
WebDriver driver=new SafariDriver(cap);

I would suggest you add above code in Base Class in Selenium Webdriver so you don’t have to write code again and again.

I have implemented in my office project and found good results.

Thanks for visiting my blog. Please comment below if you finding any issue.

Keep in touch. Have a nice day :)

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Comments

  1. Omair Imran says

    Hi Mukesh,

    I hope u doing great. I m automating my project. One of my test cases is to sign-up using Gmail But when executing sign-up using Gmail, after typing username and click the next button, Chrome show error

    “This browser or app may not be secure. Learn more
    Try using a different browser. If you’re already using a supported browser, you can refresh your screen and try again to sign in.”

    Can you help me with this? Looking forward to your reply

    Thanks

    Regards
    Omair

    Reply

  2. Gaurav Varma says

    Hi Mukesh,

    Why we are creating a profile for firefox? Why can’t we use DesiredCapabilites or firefox options for firefox?

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Gaurav,

      The above blog post is for Selenium 2.xx. Now Selenium 3.6 version onwards gecko driver has introduced FirefoxOptions similar to ChromeOptions. If you are using latest Selenium version then use FirefoxOptions

      Reply

  3. vishnu verma says

    Hi Mukesh,

    I tried your code for chrome browser and it is not working.

    My Chrome Version: 69
    Selenium Version : 2.52.0

    Getting SSL pop up everytime after entering the URL although i have added that certificate in my chrome browser as well.

    Thanks
    Vishnu Verma

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Vishnu,

      Try this code…
      ChromeOptions option = new ChromeOptions();
      option.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
      WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(option);

      Reply

  4. Sanjay says

    Hi Mukesh,
    I tried both DesiredCapabilities and FirefoxProfile option, but still facing issue in launching https URLs like google,facebook. FF 50 and SE 3.0.1, also i tried with 2.53.1 but getting same issue

    Reply

  5. Bhavik says

    Hi Mukesh,
    I tried both DesiredCapabilities and FirefoxProfile option, but still facing issue in launching https URLs like google,facebook. FF 50 and SE 3.0.1

    Reply

  6. Venu Yalluri says

    profile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
    WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver(***profile***);

    Mukesh, you also seem to have forgotten to pass the profile object in your first piece of code. With SSL certs it is difficult to test whether or not the code works even without passing this object. My contention is it won’t.
    Example:
    profile.setPreference(“browser.startup.homepage”, “http://google.com”);
    If we try the above line of code (that sets the profile homepage) with the below 2 statements separately, it works only when the profile object is passed as a parameter.
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
    AND
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

    Not sure if this one too was unintentional. Please let me know what you think.

    Reply

  7. Venu Yalluri says

    WebDriver driver=new SafariDriver(***cap***);

    You forgot passing the “cap” instance in your last line of code.
    A minor typo but worth correcting.

    Reply

  8. Sreenath says

    Hi Mukesh,
    I am using your tutorial to learn Selenium. Now I have come so far in Selenium. Thanks for these tutorials and videos. You are a good teacher and its helping me alot.

    I have one doubt regarding use of thread. I find your codes are having thread command . Is it good to use thread (sleep) in code.? In real application are we using it? or can we use it?

    Reply

  9. swapna says

    Hi

    This is my code

    public static void main(String[] args) {

    DesiredCapabilities cap=DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
    cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

    System.setProperty(“webdriver.ie.driver”, “C:\\Selenum\\IEDriverServer_x64_2.53.1\\IEDriverServer.exe”);

    WebDriver driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(cap);

    driver.get(“https://10.216.2.59/BritishLand/Live/Themes/Tabs/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fBritishLand%2flive”);

    but still getting the same page

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      HI Swapna,

      Try this as well for IE browser

      driver.get(“https://xyz.com”);
      //now we are going to use javascipt ,This will click on “Continue to this website (not recommended)” text and will //push us to the page
      driver.navigate().to(“javascript:document.getElementById(‘overridelink’).click()”);

      Reply

  11. Vishnu Godse says

    Hi Mukesh,

    yesterday i have gone through your 03 videos [Generate Logs using Logger, Security Certificate,Windows Popup handling].

    i was strangling from 01 week to clear this things but yesterday i have followed you videos and created sample application and within 40 Minutes i learnt all these.

    I have few questions [small questions]:

    1. which is better CSS or XPATH and why ?
    2. How you will control page if Network Goes down while entering data in selenium webdriver

    Thanks,
    Vishnu GOdse

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hey Vishnu,

      Really happy to see nice comment 🙂 Hope my future videos will also help you.

      Please find my answers

      1. which is better CSS or XPATH and why ?
      Ans- CSS is faster and it works same in all browser. Xpath works fine with FF and Chrome.

      2. How you will control page if Network Goes down while entering data in selenium webdriver
      Ans- If network goes down it will throw no such element exception. To handle this you can use smart wait.

      Reply

  12. Prachee Jain says

    What is the difference in profileini and firefoxfile() method, profileini also use for SSL Error??

    Reply

  15. BG says

    I tried with IE11 and it didn’t work for the site driver.get(“https://cacert.org/”); could you please check.

    Reply

  17. Lajish Lakshmanan says

    Hi there,

    I am trying to use selenium webdriver for Safari browser. As you mentioned in your post regarding Safari launching, I’ve one doubt. Do we need to provide safari driver path because it is available as extension to Safari browser which we can install it as ‘Open With’ option in windows-> Safari.

    And if you go to Safari Settings-> Preferences-> Extensions tab. Here I’ve already enabled it

    Could you pls put some light over this.

    Regards,
    Lajish Lakshmanan

    Reply

    • Mukesh Otwani says

      Hi Lajish,

      Currently safari extension is available for 2.45 only so you can use Selenium version 2.45 or lower it will work fine. Right now i tried with 2.40 its working fine in my machine.

      Reply

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