FWIW: 
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/internet-explorer-basic-authorization.html

On Oct 28, 1:20 am, Angrez Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have added the basic authentication mechanism to Firewatir. Its not yet
> released. Me & Bret need to finalize on the syntax, method name etc so that
> its easier to use both with Watir/Firewatir.
>
> - Angrez
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Raveendran P <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Aedorn,
>
> >            I got some idea's from Selenium.I implemented it in my Watir
> > scripts. Have you tried this way?  -- >http://bit.ly/21zDrH
>
> >             Awaiting your reply
>
> > Thanks
>
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Ethan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Yeah, you should be able to get a handle to the window where you enter
> >> username/password, get the text fields on that window, set them, click the
> >> 'ok' button. That'd all be in javascript over the jssh socket.
>
> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 20:28, aidy lewis <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>> The Firefox browser is completly scriptable. I would suggest looking
> >>> at the Mozilla js classes.
>
> >>> 2009/10/27 Chris <[email protected]>:
>
> >>> > I looked into this a long time ago, and there is no way to persist a
> >>> > Basic Auth session in a browser.  You have to have credentials for
> >>> > every page request and every frame within every page.   I was hacking
> >>> > around deep in the guts of Watir trying to make this work and failed.
>
> >>> > Nor do I know of any other tool that makes this possible.  There might
> >>> > be something fancy you could do in multiple libraries used by Watir,
> >>> > buiret I did not have that kind of mandate.
>
> >>> > I suggest a well-designed set of manual tours.
>
> >>> > -Chris
>
> >>> > On Oct 27, 1:53 pm, Aedorn Varanis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >> This doesn't really solve the problem.
>
> >>> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM, aidy lewis <
> >>> [email protected]>wrote:
>
> >>> >> > Can you not set your trusted uri's in about:config
>
> >>> >> > network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris ?
>
> >>> >> > Aidy
>
> >>> >> > 2009/10/27 Aedorn Varanis <[email protected]>:
> >>> >> > > I took a look around but it doesn't like there's any answer to
> >>> this. I've
> >>> >> > > recently been tasked to automate testing of a product, and the
> >>> only thing
> >>> >> > I
> >>> >> > > can't seem to solve is basic authentication, which is rather funny
> >>> to me,
> >>> >> > > but not so much to those who are waiting on this being done.
>
> >>> >> > > So how can one go about doing basic authentication with
> >>> FireWatir/Firefox
> >>> >> > on
> >>> >> > > Linux currently?
>
> > --
> > Regards,
> > P.Raveendran
> >http://raveendran.wordpress.com
>
>
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