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Gloomymoon Beginner
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Jan 3, 2009 11:55 PM

Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hi guys,

I am using selenium-rc frame to test our website. Now I encounter a problem.
I run selenium under -proxyInjectionMode and- trustAllSSLCertificates and set -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 for JVM.
While I visit website through HTTP, it's fine and work well.
When I visit HTTPS pages, it is blocked .
The page is shown in the browser window but without injected javascripts. Thus  the selenium could not go on.

 

Selenium-rc version: nightbuild

Browser: IE 6

System:Windows XP

Network:Internet access through a proxy server

 

Process:

start selenium server with:

>java -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -proxyInjectionMode -trustAllSSLCertificates

>cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*piiexplore&2=http://www.google.com/

>cmd=open&1=http://www.google.com

     //this command works fine

 

>cmd=open&1=https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/

     //this will block the test process

 

Is this a bug or the limit of injection mode?

Any advice or suggestion will be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

 

gloomymoon

2008-12-22

pvtrao Pro
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1. Dec 23, 2008 2:24 AM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hi,

 

Can you try with *iehta instead of *iexplore.

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2. Dec 23, 2008 8:50 PM in response to: pvtrao
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Thanks pvtrao.

I tried *ietha mode and it did not work. Browser return HTTP ERROR: 400 Bad Request

 

 

gloomymoon

Amit Expert
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3. Dec 28, 2008 11:50 PM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Why you have used the below SRC params ?

 

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -proxyInjectionMode -trustAllSSLCertificates

 

You can also achieve the same by the following SRC server params -

 

java -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -multiWindow

 

and the run the following commands

 

cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*iehta&2=http://www.google.com/      ( Use *iehta experimental browser becasue domin has been changed from http to https)

cmd=open&1=http://www.google.com

cmd=open&1=https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/

 

Above command works fine for me .

 

Thanks

-Amit

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4. Dec 29, 2008 4:47 AM in response to: Amit
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Sorry Amit,

We have to use a proxy to access the internet because of corp security policy as i mentioned in the main thread.
-proxyInjectionMode is the only way i can find to meet every our need.

 

Thank you all the same.

 

gloomymoon

Amit Expert
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5. Dec 29, 2008 7:38 AM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hey you can use your old  same param with server

 

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -proxyInjectionMode -trustAllSSLCertificates

 

and the run the following commands

 

cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*iehta&2=http://www.google.com/      ( Use *iehta experimental browser becasue domin has been changed from http to https)

cmd=open&1=http://www.google.com

cmd=open&1=https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/

 

Above command works fine for me .

 

In case the above cmd doesn't work then run the SRC server with the following param -

 

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -multiWindow -trustAllSSLCertificates

 

and use the above cmmd

 

Note - use the *iehta browser (its a experimental browser for https )

 

Thanks

-Amit

kaps Beginner
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6. Dec 30, 2008 7:49 AM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hi Gloomymoon,

 

Setting -Dhttp.proxyHost and -Dhttp.proxyPort will not help you. Selenium always sets itself to act as Proxy Server so I believe this option will not work.

Philippe Hanrigou Expert
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7. Dec 30, 2008 2:19 PM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hi Gloomymoo,

 

Gloomymoon wrote:

 

Hi guys,

I am using selenium-rc frame to test our website. Now I encounter a problem.
I run selenium under -proxyInjectionMode and- trustAllSSLCertificates and set -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 for JVM.
While I visit website through HTTP, it's fine and work well.
When I visit HTTPS pages, it is blocked .
The page is shown in the browser window but without injected javascripts. Thus  the selenium could not go on.

 

Process:

start selenium server with:

>java -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -proxyInjectionMode -trustAllSSLCertificates

>cmd=getNewBrowserSession&1=*piiexplore&2=http://www.google.com/

>cmd=open&1=http://www.google.com

     //this command works fine

 

>cmd=open&1=https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?continue=http://www.google.com/

     //this will block the test process

 

 

Is this a buy or the limit of injection mode?

Any advice or suggestion will be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

 

gloomymoon

2008-12-22

 

You are setting the HTTP proxy correctly. The problem is that the JVM use distinct system properties for http and https proxies. For https you will also need set the https proxy host and port. For instance:

 

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttp.proxyPort=80 -Dhttps.proxyHost=proxy -Dhttps.proxyPort=80 -jar Selenium-Server.jar -interactive -proxyInjectionMode

 

Which should do the trick.

 

Have fun with Selenium and let me know if that works for you,

Cheers,

- Philippe Hanrigou

  http://ph7spot.com

Philippe Hanrigou Expert
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8. Dec 30, 2008 2:31 PM in response to: kaps
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Hi kaps,

 

kapil_athalye wrote:

 

Hi Gloomymoon,

 

Setting -Dhttp.proxyHost and -Dhttp.proxyPort will not help you.

 

This is incorrect. These properties do set the HTTP proxy that will be used by the Remote Control process to issue all its http requests.

 

Selenium always sets itself to act as Proxy Server so I believe this option will not work.

 

It is true that Selenium Remote Control (most of the time) is acting as a proxy server. But RC is acting as a proxy for the browser (to workaround the single origin policy). In constrast the http.proxy* system properties are setting the http proxy used by the RC process to do its job. In a more graphic way, this is how a http://google.com would end up being loading in the browser:

 

Browser -----> RC ------------------> Internet

 

                              http.proxyHost

                              http.proxyPort

 

 

I hope it all makes sense,

Cheers,

- Philippe Hanrigou

  http://ph7spot.com

Gloomymoon Beginner
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9. Dec 30, 2008 7:18 PM in response to: Philippe Hanrigou
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

Thank you Philippe and Kaps.

 

I have tried -Dhttps before and it results just the same as i said in main thread.
While visit a HTTPS page using a proxy server, the page content could be displayed in the browsers but without the JavaScripts whitch should be injected in the page under proxyInjectionMode.

The screen shows a server exception: time out waiting for window '' to appearon session xxxx.

That means I have lost the control to continue my testcase.

 

Amit is right. It works under *iehta. But we are eager to test our site under other browsers except for ie.

 

BTW, thank you all for your help.

 

gloomymoon

Amit Expert
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10. Dec 30, 2008 11:17 PM in response to: Gloomymoon
Re: Test HTTPS site through proxy

. But we are eager to test our site under other browsers except for ie.

 

You can also use other browser like *chrome(Its  a proxy firefox) etc .for your testing .

 

Please take a look on 'Support for HTTPS'  section on this page 'http://seleniumhq.org/documentation/tutorials/'

 

 

Please check the below link too -

 

http://seleniumhq.org/about/platforms.html#browsers

 

Thanks

-Amit

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