using http proxy with selenium Geckodriver

Question

I tried a few things but non of them worked. Anyone have a working example of using a HTTP proxy with Geckodriver for Selenium 3? I am using Java bindings

Here is what I tried

        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
        proxy.setHttpProxy("proxyip:proxyport");
        capabilities.setCapability("proxy", proxy);

        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\geckodriver-v0.16.1-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

Answer 1

To enable proxy with Firefox browser you need to create a new profile and pass it to the driver as follows:

• Setting up HTTP proxy:

  FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();         
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1);
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.http", "localhost");     
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.http_port", 3128); 
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
  

• Setting up SSL proxy:

  FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();         
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.type", 1);
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.ssl", "localhost");     
  profile.setPreference("network.proxy.ssl_port", 3128); 
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);