On 1/30/06, Terry Peppers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was looking through the old Watir mailing lists for some information on > how I might be able to bypass the Apache user authentication on our staging > machine without using AutoIt. I didn't come up with much aside from use - > AutoIt. One of our developers recommended I should try the following URL: > > http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
Yeah, the http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED] thing used to work in IE too, but support for that was removed at some point after it began to be widely used as part of a technique to spoof URLs in phishing emails. :) Anyway, you might want to look at the 'WindowLogonExample.rb' and 'WindowLogonExtra.rb' files in the Watir unit tests. Those are more the kind of thing you want, I think. And one of the things that helped me understand ways to use autoit was looking over '\ruby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8\watir\WindowHelper.rb'. Up to and including Watir 1.4.1, it seems this type of task is usually accomplished using multiple Ruby threads, in order to get around the fact that IE blocks when you request a URL that spawns a popup or prompt. The code in one of the threads often just runs a second Ruby script (as shown in WindowLogonExample.rb / WindowLogonExtra.rb). I think the development version of Watir has some fancy new stuff that helps in this area, but I haven't looked at it yet. Anyway, here's a distilled example of the thread technique that might work as a standalone script for your case: --------------------------------- require 'watir' require 'win32ole' autoit = WIN32OLE.new('AutoItX3.Control') # URL that kicks off the basic auth prompt: url = "http://quantico.int.apg.aventail.com/secured/"; # The title of the prompt dialog: prompt = "Connect to quantico.int.apg.aventail.com" user = "user1" pass = "user1" a = Thread.new { ie = Watir::IE.start(url) } b = Thread.new { autoit.WinWait prompt, "" autoit.Send(user) autoit.Send("{TAB}") autoit.Send(pass) autoit.Send("{ENTER}") } a.join b.join _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
