[Webtest] Proxy authentication

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi Paul,

I prefer you to open an issue and attach the files there.

Marc.

paul_devine@visi.com wrote:
> 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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