Try this

browser = watir::Browser.new :ff
browser.goto"http://username:password@yoururl";

This one worked for me so hoping it works for you as well


On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:23 AM, kloppet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm running into the exact same problem.  Did you ever find a solution for
> this?
>
> On Monday, February 6, 2012 1:21:28 PM UTC-6, hillary wrote:
>>
>> I have an internal site that doesn't have a login page. Instead users
>> will only have access to it based on their Active Directory credentials.
>> There is no login page, instead users login through a windows
>> authentication prompt.
>>
>> I'm using taza as my framework so i have a feeling that i'm going to need
>> to update my the browser class, but i'm not sure where to begin.
>>
>> So i have two problems:
>> 1. Loading the site in firefox/ie 8 (windows xp) produces the
>> authentication dialog (ie 9seems to be using the credentials of my login to
>> determine access so i'm not prompted).
>>
>> 2. Part of testing this site is that users depending on their AD group
>> only have access to only certain CRUD functions. So i'm going to need to be
>> able to start/login ie, firefox, and maybe chrome with a different test AD
>> login. Has anyone done this type of testing before?
>> so i think i edited the registry correctly.
>>
>> Things I've tried.
>>
>> i've tried the Watir::Browser.start "http://username:password@**yoururl";
>> idea in webdriver, but it doesn't seem to be working because i still get
>> the dialog for firefox. I was going to try rautomation, but it when i do a
>> goto/start that process doesn't finish, the browser just hangs because it
>> doesn't connect to the site unless the user authenticates.  Also i've
>> looked at this page http://wiki.openqa.org/**display/WTR/Basic+**
>> Authentication <http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Basic+Authentication>but 
>> it kinda confuses me. Also it all seems to be autoit solutions, and i'd
>> rather not use autoit if possible. Also I don't think autoit works for
>> firefox, correct?
>>
>> For number 2 I think the solution might be using the browser start url
>> idea, but again it's not working.  When I followed the instructions here
>> http://watirmelon.com/2010/11/**24/elegantly-handling-basic-**
>> browser-authentication-with-**watir/<http://watirmelon.com/2010/11/24/elegantly-handling-basic-browser-authentication-with-watir/>
>> I get this error
>>
>> WIN32OLERuntimeError: (in OLE method `navigate': )
>>     OLE error code:800C000E in <Unknown>
>>       <No Description>
>>     HRESULT error code:0x80020009
>>       Exception occurred.
>>         from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.**1/gems/watir-3.0.0.rc1/lib/**
>> watir/ie-cl
>> ass.rb:384:in `method_missing'
>>         from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.**1/gems/watir-3.0.0.rc1/lib/**
>> watir/ie-cl
>> ass.rb:384:in `goto'
>>         from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.**1/gems/watir-3.0.0.rc1/lib/**
>> watir/ie-cl
>> ass.rb:116:in `start_window'
>>         from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.**1/gems/watir-3.0.0.rc1/lib/**
>> watir/ie-cl
>> ass.rb:109:in `start'
>>         from C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.**1/gems/commonwatir-3.0.0.rc1/
>> **lib/watir
>> /browser.rb:71:in `start'
>>         from (irb):2
>>         from C:/Ruby192/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>>
>>
>>
>>
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