I've been tasked with choosing an automated web testng tool for our application and had WebTest recommended to me but haven't yet had any success as we're using basic http authentication for logging in. I have set up the correct username and password as attributes of the invoke step but receive a MalformedChallengeException. :-
INFO (com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask) - Starting webtest "myTest" (D:\webtest\simple-test.xml:17: ) INFO (com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask) - Canoo Webtest: R_1594. INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) - Creating result directory: D:\webtest\webtest-results INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) - Surfing with browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98) INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - >>>> Start Step: steps (1/2) INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - >>>> Start Step: invoke "Get the page" (1/2) INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction) - -> gotoTarget by URL: http://localhost:7001/ros.bops.presentation.ui/ros/bops/presentation/ui/ workflow/pageflows/begin.do INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.TargetHelper) - getting response for url: http://localhost:7001/ros.bops.presentation.ui/ros/bops/presentation/ui/ workflow/pageflows/begin.do INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.TargetHelper) - Setting password for username: Bops_admin INFO (org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor) - basic authentication scheme selected ERROR (org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector) - Invalid challenge: Basic org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.MalformedChallengeException: Invalid challenge: Basic at org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeParser.extractParams(Aut hChallengeParser.java:97) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.RFC2617Scheme.processChallenge(RFC261 7Scheme.java:93) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.BasicScheme.processChallenge(BasicSch eme.java:111) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.auth.AuthChallengeProcessor.processChallen ge(AuthChallengeProcessor.java:161) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.processWWWAuthChallenge (HttpMethodDirector.java:689) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.processAuthenticationRe sponse(HttpMethodDirector.java:663) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMetho dDirector.java:192) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:3 96) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:3 46) at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.HttpWebConnection.getResponse(HttpWebConne ction.java:126) at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseFromWebConnection (WebClient.java:1424) at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponse(WebClient.java:1 381) at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:332) at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:399) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.TargetHelper.getResponse(TargetHelper.ja va:69) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction.getResponse(Abstrac tTargetAction.java:68) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.InvokePage.findTarget(InvokePage.java:13 4) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction$1.call(AbstractTarg etAction.java:108) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.TargetHelper.protectedGoto(TargetHelper. java:88) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction.gotoTarget(Abstract TargetAction.java:106) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.AbstractTargetAction.doExecute(AbstractT argetAction.java:78) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:104) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.executeSteps(TestStepSequence.jav a:43) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.doExecute(TestStepSequence.java:3 1) at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:104) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask.execute(WebtestTask.java:164) at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275) at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:341) at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:369) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1216) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1185) at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecut or.java:40) at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1068) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:668) at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:187) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:246) at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:67) INFO (com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient) - statusCode=[401] contentType=[text/html] INFO (com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient) - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Draft//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Error 401--Unauthorized</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="WebLogic Server"> </HEAD> <BODY bgcolor="white"> <FONT FACE=Helvetica><BR CLEAR=all> <TABLE border=0 cellspacing=5><TR><TD><BR CLEAR=all> <FONT FACE="Helvetica" COLOR="black" SIZE="3"><H2>Error 401--Unauthorized</H2> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE> <TABLE border=0 width=100% cellpadding=10><TR><TD VALIGN=top WIDTH=100% BGCOLOR=white><FONT FACE="Courier New"><FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H3>From RFC 2068 <i>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</i>:</H3> </FONT><FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H4>10.4.2 401 Unauthorized</H4> </FONT><P><FONT FACE="Courier New">The request requires user authentication. The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.46) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource. The client MAY repeat the request with a suitable Authorization header field (section 14.8). If the request already included Authorization credentials, then the 401 response indicates that authorization has been refused for those credentials. If the 401 response contains the same challenge as the prior response, and the user agent has already attempted authentication at least once, then the user SHOULD be presented the entity that was given in the response, since that entity MAY include relevant diagnostic information. HTTP access authentication is explained in section 11.</FONT></P> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> I've used a http header analyser to confirm the server response contains the challenge header in the correct format. Just wanted to check if anyone else had experienced a similar problem or if there is another means for submitting the username & password. Thanks, Ben Nisbet
