selenium webdriver exception (in firefox)

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im using selenium firefox driver 3.3.1,selenium java 3.3.0,gecko driver 0.14 and firefox 52.when i run my code "your connection is not secure" page appears but when i manually open it ,it will open without any errors this is the error message i got

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.createException(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:127) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:93) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.W3CHttpResponseCodec.decode(W3CHttpResponseCodec.java:42) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:163) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:604) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.get(RemoteWebDriver.java:325) at automation.Qwik_events_uat_firefox.main(Qwik_events_uat_firefox.java:24)

Madhan Madhan · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-15T18:00:49

As per geckodriver

acceptInsecureCerts
Boolean initially set to false, indicating the session will not implicitly trust untrusted or self-signed TLS certificates on navigation.

You can initialize your FirefoxDriver like below to avoid the issue

    FirefoxProfile ff = new FirefoxProfile();
    ff.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(ff);

or you can go with DesiredCapabilities like

    DesiredCapabilities caps = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
    caps.setCapability("acceptInsecureCerts", true);
    WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(caps);

Also you should use GeckoDriver 0.15 becuase selenium recommends to do so

As per Selenium Changelog

v3.3.1

Better support for geckodriver v0.15.0. Notably, exceptions returned from the remote end are now unwrapped properly.

selenium webdriver exception (in firefox)

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