[Webtest] Proxy authentication

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi Paul,

I don't have to use webtest/htmlunit with a proxy, there fore I'm not 100% sure.

I think that webtest doesn't provide currently anything to test through a proxy. Yes, it would worth building it into 
webtest. I guess that the proxy name and port informations should be in the <configuration> because they have to be 
available at WebClient's instanciation.

Marc.

paul_devine@visi.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am using webtest-1.7-R_751.  My webtest needs to authenticate with
> username/password to an internal proxy to get at the app it's testing.  From
> the list archives and limited analysis I've done it looks like:
> 
> 1. ant's (optional) `setproxy` task does not seem to allow me to do this- it
> sets up system properties that are used by the jdk's java.net
> Http(s)URLConnection classes, whereas these system properties do not seem to be
> used by httpclient (webtest->htmlunit->httpclient.)
> 2. I can't see any configuration options for this is in webtest itself, or
> direct support in the source code. In the code a new htmlunit WebClient()
> instance is created in the Setup step, but i can't see a call anywhere to
> `setCredentials` on the WebClient.
> 
> For now I've worked my way through this by a writing a webtest extension step
> that sets credentials on the WebClient instance, i invoke the step before any
> others in the testSpec. If someone knows of an easier solution to this I would
> appreciate the help (I'm probably overlooking something easier.)
> Alternatively, if there is no in built support, is this something worth
> building into webtest (albeit in a more robust way than i have done) ? I'd be
> happy to help out in this regard if so.
> 
> Thanks
> -- Paul Devine
> 
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