Ways to Handle Log-in Pop-up in Selenium Webdriver

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Welcome again! Ever think of handling Log-in Pop-up via Selenium? Let’s take a quick overview of the scenario.

What’s the need for automating log-in Pop-up?

For security reasons, some of the web pages did not have access to normal users.
As only authenticated users with correct credentials can access web pages.
We can automate this by using selenium.

What the pop-up mean and where it arises?

Simple pop-up notifications are those that show details to the user.
Information can be of any kind, sometimes requiring certain operating permissions, sometimes requesting a username and password.
The Alers Box displayed below gives some information or message to the user ” Hi… this is the alert message” and asking the user to press OK for action.

This article mainly focuses on Authentication pop up on the website and different way to handle it using Selenium Web driver

Simple authentication pop-up arises when we try to access any authentication website

Let us learn how to handle authentication pop-up in Selenium WebDriver using Java.

Below are the ways to handle login pop-up using Selenium in java .

Pass the credentials in the URL of the web page.
Using AutoIT tool.

General Information: AutoIt scripts run only in Windows Environment. To run in any other Environment Use the WINE tool.

The Basic authentication pop-up is like the alert pop-up .
When we navigated to a specific web page that asks for the credential.
To handle this, we can pass credentials (Username + Password) to the web page’s URL.

Syntax and Some Basic information is prerequisite.

username : "dummyusername".
password : "dummypassword".
URL      : "XYZ.com".
Syntax for handling pop-up is:
https://username:password@URL

Whenever we navigate to specific web pages where authentication is required. Login pop-up is prompted.
In this example, we had taken the username and password as stated above.

        import org.openqa.selenium.By;
        import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
        import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
        import java.io.IOException;
        import java.net.URLEncoder;
        import static java.net.URLEncoder.*;
        public class BrowserTest {
              public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
  //To set system property           System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","drivers/gechodriver/geckodriver.exe");
  //Open the driver
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String MyURL="https://"+"dummyURL.com";
        String URL = "https://" +dummyusername +":" +dummypassword +"@"+ "dummyurl.com";
	driver.get(URL);
	driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
	String currenturl = driver.getCurrentUrl();
        if(currenturl==Myurl){
            System.out.println("Hurray You are successfully done login");
            }
        else
            System.out.println("login Unsuccessfull");
		
	System.out.println("The page URL is "+currenturl);
        driver.close();
	driver.quit();
}

}

As soon as we enter correctly the credential.You will be logged in successfully.

Before starting with the AutoIt tool, Firstly we have to complete the installation part
AutoIT download -> click here to download. Once downloaded, Install AutoItV3 Setup in System.

What is AutoIt?

AutoIt is a tool used to do anything in the Windows environment.
The AutoIt script is written in the BASIC language.
It can promote any key-click combination, mouse movement, and window/control functionality.

Now let us handle the login pop

WinWaitActive("Mozilla Firefox","","10")
if WinExists("Mozilla Firefox") Then
	Send("dummyusername{TAB}")
	Send("dummypassword{Enter}")
	EndIf

Navigate to the folder and open AutoIt editor.
In the editor, enter the above code with user authentication.
Save the file by name seleniumbug.au3.
Now convert the script into the executable file. By right-clicking and compiling. You will see the executable file created.
In IDE set the driver, open the URL, and include the path of executable as below.

        import org.openqa.selenium.By;
        import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
        import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions;
        import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
        import java.io.IOException;
        import java.net.URLEncoder;
        import static java.net.URLEncoder.*;


public class BrowserTest {
    public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","drivers/gechodriver/geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        String MyURL="https://dummyURL.com";
        driver.get(MyURL);
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec("AutoIT/seleniumbug.exe");
	System.out.println("Hurray you are logged in");
        String title=driver.getTitle();
        System.out.println("Title of page is"+title);
			
        driver.close();
			
	}

}