Regd: WebDriver on secure Certificate - webdriver

Question

I have been using WebDriver for past 6 months.
There are couple of issues am facing right now [Version 2.3.1]:
a) when i try to get the element for the override link on the security certificate [https] page in IE through webdriver findElement, its not able to find that element but the selenium RC works fine.
Then i got a fix for tht by using:
webDriver.navigate().to(javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click());
Note :
I tried using the below code to fetch the element on security certificate page , but it returns
the body element
WebElement activeElement() [WebElement with focus, or the body element if no element with focus can be detected.], why its not able to pick the element by using findelement ?
b) i connected the remote network through SSL for running the webdriver test, am not able to click the override link on secure certificate [https] page?
c) is it better approach implementing webdriver [currently am using this] directly instead of using any framework like jbehave ?
Please provide your suggestions
Thanks,
Jayaraj A

Answer 1

Thank you for workaround!
For Java, your solution will look just a bit different and it helped me:
//driver is initialised somewhere before, for example, as RemoteWebDriver
driver.navigate().to("javascript:document.getElementById('overridelink').click()");

Answer 2

Yeah, I had similar problems. Webdriver doesn't seem to have complete information on
the Certificate error page for some reason.
I'm on Windows XP SP3, running IE 7 with Python/Webdriver
I'm using this hack to get around the certificate error page:
(Help, I still can't get freeeking Markdown to format a code block...)
#!/c/Python27/python
import win32con
import win32gui
def certificate_continue():
"""
Find the IE Window that has a Certificate Error and try to continue anyway.
We'll use the win32 modules to find the right window & child window,
then write some Javascript into the address bar and execute to continue.
"""
def _enumWindowsCallback(hwnd, windows):
"""
Cannibalized from Gigi Sayfan (WindowMover)
http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/37773/1954
This appends window information as a 3-tuple to the list
passed into win32gui.EnumWindows()
"""
class_name = win32gui.GetClassName(hwnd)
# apparently win32gui.GetWindowText() only works to get the text
# on a button or a label not really for edit windows.
text = win32gui.GetWindowText(hwnd)
windows.append((hwnd, class_name, text))
def _get_certificate_error_window():
"""
all_windows[] gets filled up with a list of tuples, then loop through
it filtering on class and the window text (title bar text).
Assumes only one 'Certificate Error' window.
"""
all_windows = []
win32gui.EnumWindows(_enumWindowsCallback, all_windows)
for win in all_windows:
class_name = win[1]
title_bar_text = win[2]
if class_name == 'IEFrame' and \
'Certificate Error: Navigation Blocked' in title_bar_text:
return win
def _get_edit_text(hwnd):
"""
This function courtesy of Omar Raviv with huge help from Simon Brunning.
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/archives/000664.html
"""
buf_size = win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_GETTEXTLENGTH, 0, 0)
buf_size += 1 # don't forget that null character boys...
buffer = win32gui.PyMakeBuffer(buf_size)
# odd, we're telling them how big the text is that they're giving
# back to us
win32gui.SendMessage(hwnd, win32con.WM_GETTEXT, buf_size, buffer)
# don't need the null character now for Python
return buffer[:buf_size]
def _get_address_bar(parent_handle):
"""
There appears to be several 'Edit' windows within each browser window.
From Microsoft: If a child window has created child windows of its own,
EnumChildWindows enumerates those windows as well.
"""
childwins = []
win32gui.EnumChildWindows(parent_handle, _enumWindowsCallback,
childwins)
for win in childwins:
child_handle = win[0]
class_name = win[1]
if 'Edit' in class_name:
edit_text = _get_edit_text(child_handle)
if 'http://' in edit_text or 'https://' in edit_text:
return child_handle # then this must be it...
# begin certificate_continue
target_win = _get_certificate_error_window()
try:
cert_err_handle = target_win[0]
except TypeError:
print "OK, no Certificate Error window available"
return(1)
address_bar_handle = _get_address_bar(cert_err_handle)
# any better way to check the handle ?
if not win32gui.IsWindow( address_bar_handle):
print "Choked getting IE edit window"
return(1)
# now, need to send this JavaScript text to the browser Address Bar
javascript_continue = 'javascript: var continue_element = document.getElementById("overridelink"); continue_element.click();'
win32gui.SendMessage(address_bar_handle, win32con.WM_SETTEXT, 0,
javascript_continue)
# OK, and finally, send a carriage return to the address bar
# This last abomination, courtesy of Claudiu
# http://stackoverflow.com/#questions/5080777/
# what-sendmessage-to-use-to-send-keys-directly-to-another-window
win32gui.SendMessage(address_bar_handle, win32con.WM_KEYDOWN,
win32con.VK_RETURN, 0)
return(0)
if __name__ == '__main__':
status = certificate_continue()
exit(status)