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Use onAuthPrompt() with CasperJS and SlimerJS

SlimerJS added a onAuthPrompt callback. Is it possible to get it to work with CasperJS?

I found mention that the phantomjs or slimerjs object is available as casper.page, and then the following answer said that casper.page is only available after calling casper.start(): https://stackoverflow.com/a/16629231/841830

So I tried this code. The onAuthPrompt code is taken from the documentation; I just added a log line to make sure it works.

casper.test.begin("first",function suite(test){
  casper.start();

  casper.page.onAuthPrompt = function (type, url, realm, credentials) {
    console.log("onAuthPrompt: type="+type+",url="+url+",realm="+realm+",credentials="+credentials);    //TEMP
    credentials.username = "laurent";
    credentials.password = "1234";
    return true;
    };

  casper.thenOpen(url,function(){
    console.log('Loaded:'+url);
    test.assertSelectorHasText('#msg','');
    this.capture('1.png');
    });

  casper.run(function(){test.done();});
});

It loads url (which does not require auth), then an XMLHttpRequest or EventSource connection is made, which is what requires authentication. I see the password prompt pop-up but my onAuthPrompt() function is not getting called.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this not what onAuthPrompt is for, or could it be a bug that I could report (but in that case, do you think the problem is in CasperJS or in SlimerJS?).

Solution

  • According to the documentation, the onAuthPrompt callback was added in version 0.9.0, which has yet to be released.

    You can check the documentation from the master branch of the Git repo here.

    There is also the latest released documentation (v0.8.3) here