visual studio - How to manage Basic Authentication login with selenium c#?

Question

I'm making tests for the company where i'm doing my intership, but i don't know how to make that the script put my credentials in this part, if i enter in the page(myself, not the chromedriver) automatically gets the credentials from the login on my pc, obviously the test driver can't do that, that's why i get that alert, my question is how can i put the credentials there automatically? for now i'm putting a thread sleep and putting the credentials manually but i know that's not the optimal way to do it, i already try using the alert methods:

var alert = driver.SwitchTo().Alert();
alert.SetAuthenticationCredentials("user","password");
alert.Accept();

But I get this error:

Message: OpenQA.Selenium.NoAlertPresentException : no such alert
(Session info: chrome=87.0.4280.141)

And if i put a wait i got a timeout but nothing happen, as you can see i'm using chrome, i read a post from some years that chrome can't manage alerts, but i don't know if that's a thing today, i hope you guys can help me.

Answer 1

It's not an alert as such but the Basic Authentication popup.

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Solution

You can access the url passing the username and password embedded within the url as follows:

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://<username>:<password>@website.com/");

As an example to login within Basic Auth you can use:

driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://admin:[email protected]/basic_auth");

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References

You can find a couple of relevant detailed discussions in:

• Selenium - Basic Authentication via url
• Python Windows Authentication username and password is not working