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Selenium 2 Webdriver and IE 9 Security Certificate

I have some Selenium 2 Webdriver test cases for Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. When I access https URLs on IE9 (Windows 7 64bit) I get "There is a problem with this website's security certificate". At this point the test hangs and eventually fails. I tried:

  • Getting Selenium to click on the "Continue to this website (not recommended)." link. This can't be done as this error page is not your usual page. Same with JavaScript - it doesn't execute.
  • I tried adding the registry key
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ERROR_PAGE_BYPASS_ZONE_CHECK_FOR_HTTPS_KB954312
    that prevents the certificate-error-page from displaying - didn't work. Probably because I'm on Windows 7 with IE9.
  • Following this advice I tried using browsermob proxy, but there's very little documentation out there and I couldn't work it out.

    • Finally, I don't have admin access to my PC - e.g. no access to group policies. Selenium 2 Webdriver works fine on Firefox. I have all security zones enabled in IE Internet Options and if I run the tests on other URLs (http) then there is no problem.

    Has anyone got a solution to this problem? Does anyone now hot to use browsermob proxy (or any other proxy) effectively to overcome this issue?

    Thanks, Damo

    Solution

  • I found the answer on the SQA board: https://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/1928/selenium-2-webdriver-and-ie-9-security-certificate

    We created a certificate and it It worked like a charm.