Automatically bypass SSL Certificate warning/exception in Firefox

sood — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:47:32 +0000

Have you ever gotten those pesky “This connection is untrusted” SSL certificate warnings in Firefox where you have to click on “Add Exception” to bypass the screen? Perhaps, you are trying to do some UI automation using Selenium or Watir and this message is getting in the way. Well, don’t waste anymore time looking for a solution because I found one for you! There is now a Firefox plugin called Remember Certificate Exception that will drive the browser and automatically click on the option to add the exception. Give this a try, but be careful to what sites you allow!

For more information on this plugin and to download, click here.

How to test AJAX websites using Selenium

sood — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:28:32 +0000

This article will show you how to test AJAX web applications using Selenium. If you have used Selenium before, you are familiar with the wait_for_page_to_load (waitForPageToLoad) call which waits until a page finishes loading before continuing. If you have tried using this for an AJAX-enabled website, you will notice that your Selenium scripts just whizzes by that call. A quick and easy way to fix this is by using the wait_for_condition (waitForCondition) call that will wait until all pending AJAX requests have completed before continuing with the rest of the test script. Simple add this call immediately after your action that spawns an AJAX request:

selenium.wait_for_condition "selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().Ajax.activeRequestCount == 0", 60000

For example:
selenium.load "http://heatware.net/" selenium.click "link_that_makes_ajax_call" selenium.wait_for_condition "selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().Ajax.activeRequestCount == 0", 60000

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Automatically bypass SSL Certificate warning/exception in Firefox

How to test AJAX websites using Selenium