Avoiding the IE certificate alert by driving with a lead foot

My current challenge involves executing JavaScript in the browser of the client where my intern/selenium/leadfoot tests are running. Specifically, I am attempting to bypass the certificate warning on IE8 & 9.

In the past, using selenium-python bindings, I was able to use the following code to handle the warning if it appeared:

if "Certificate" in driver.title:
    driver.get("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click();")

Now, with leadfoot, I have experimented with various combinations like:

.get(require.toUrl('https://secure-url.com')
.execute("document.getElementById('overridelink').click();")
// OR
.get("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click();")

However, I am unable to successfully execute this JavaScript on the client. Has anyone managed to achieve this?

.execute('alert("hello");')

This works fine on other pages, but not on this particular page. It seems like leadfoot is restricted from running JS on this security page, unlike the selenium API.

Eventually, it results in the following error:

JavaScriptError: [POST http://localhost:4444/wd/hub/session/1fa8a4a3-8774-46af-ad87-0e8fbc5a1388/execute / {"script":"document.getElementById('overridelink').click();","args":[]}] JavaScript error (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Command duration or timeout: 30 milliseconds

Build info: version: '2.42.2', revision: '6a6995d', time: '2014-06-03 17:42:03'

System info: host: 'IE9Win7', ip: '169.254.0.207', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.7.0_67'

Session ID: 8b20796a-1d40-48ad-82e1-25ce16a40f17

Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver

Capabilities [{platform=WINDOWS, javascriptEnabled=true, elementScrollBehavior=0, ignoreZoomSetting=false, enablePersistentHover=true, ie.ensureCleanSession=false, browserName=internet explorer, enableElementCacheCleanup=true, unexpectedAlertBehaviour=dismiss, version=9, ie.usePerProcessProxy=false, cssSelectorsEnabled=true, ignoreProtectedModeSettings=false, requireWindowFocus=false, handlesAlerts=true, initialBrowserUrl=http://localhost:29797/, ie.forceCreateProcessApi=false, nativeEvents=true, browserAttachTimeout=0, ie.browserCommandLineSwitches=, takesScreenshot=true}]

  at Server._post  <node_modules\intern\node_modules\leadfoot\Server.js:68:9>
...

I can also confirm that WebDriverIO allows me to bypass the warning using the following code snippet:

client.url("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click();")
javascriptinternet-explorerseleniumintern

Answer №1

To bypass the Certificate Error page, I utilized a method to send tab key commands in order to navigate to the override link and press enter as shown below:

.pressKeys([Keys.TAB, Keys.TAB, Keys.TAB, Keys.ENTER])

While there may be alternative approaches, this one proved effective.

For reference, here is an example of how this could be implemented:

        var command = this.remote;
        return command
            .get(require.toUrl('https://portal-stg.vpc.locusdev.net'))
            .getPageTitle()

            // Handling IE Certificate Error
            .then(function(title) {
                if (title.indexOf('Certificate Error') !== -1) {
                    command.pressKeys([Keys.TAB, Keys.TAB, Keys.TAB, Keys.ENTER])
                }
                return true;
            })

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