Watir can't clear IE security warning

3
votes

I'm using watir-webdriver to drive IE to test a website using a SSL certificate for another website. (the production version of same website)

When I visit my site, I get a page that looks like this (Since the security certificate is bad) http://www.zeus.com/sites/default/files/media/warning2.png

The watir documentation has a workaround for this http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Security+Alerts my_browser.link(:id, "overridelink").click

When I try to run this in the ruby console, I get an error. 

irb(main):050:0> b.link(:id, "overridelink").click
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnexpectedJavascriptError: Unable to find element with xpath == .//a[@id='overridelink']
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:45:in `assert_ok'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in `initialize'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:54:in `new'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:54:in `create_response'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:64:in `request'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:35:in `call'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:410:in `raw_execute'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:388:in `execute'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:356:in `find_element_by'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.8.0/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/search_context.rb:41:in `find_element'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:86:in `find_first_by_multiple'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/locators/element_locator.rb:33:in `locate'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:263:in `locate'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:245:in `assert_exists'
        from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-webdriver-0.3.5/lib/watir-webdriver/elements/element.rb:65:in `click'
        from (irb):50
        from :0irb(main):051:0>

When you look at the html for the error page, the continue link is definitely there.

<tr>
<td >&nbsp;</td>
<td id="continueToSiteAlign" align="left" valign="middle">
    <h4 id="continueToSite">
        <img src="red_shield.png" ID="ImgOverride" border="0" alt="Not recommended icon" class="actionIcon"><A href='' ID="overridelink" NAME="overridelink" >Continue to this website (not recommended).</A>
    </h4>
    </td>
</tr>

Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

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4 Answers

4
votes

There is no way to avoid this automatically as far as I know with Watir-WebDriver.

The solution is to make sure IE doesn't care about this error:

  1. Tools and select Internet Options
  2. Select the Advanced tab
  3. Scroll down and uncheck Warn about certificate address mismatch
2
votes

I think this is the right page to see how watir-webdriver works with certificates: http://watirwebdriver.com/browser-certificates/

Unfortunately, I do not see anything about IE browser.

Update: Alister said "I believe you manually need to add the certificate to trusted root" https://twitter.com/#!/alisterscott/status/124047931945922561

1
votes

A solution for this that I use is to use autoit to tab into the 'continue to website', saves having to add to website all the time

    autoit=WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control')
    i=1
    while i < 11 
        autoit.Send("{Tab}")
        i+=1
    end

    autoit.Send("{Enter}")
0
votes

this code works on my IE10, it clicks "overridelink" perfectly.

browser.goto("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click()")