[Webtest] Proxy authentication

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Hi Marc

Sounds good.  Should I make the changes, test them, and upload a contribution
with modified files to the Wiki ? I'm not sure on the process for submitting.

Thanks
-- Paul


Quoting Marc Guillemot <mguillemot@yahoo.fr>:

> 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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