ASM - Webdriver , authenticate by pop-up form

Products

• CA App Synthetic Monitor

Issue/Introduction

After doing a recording and uploading the script to ASM there is a problem validating the authentication form that comes via pop-up, is there any way to indicate the user and password when the validation occurs in popup windows for Webdriver?

Environment

ASM 10.6.x

Cause

Webdriver agent cannot fill-in native password popups with a script, this is a technology limitation.

For authentication methods, currently we support Basic or Digest authentication and Kerberos authentication (used in many SSO solutions) will be supported in ASM 10.7.

Resolution

For this particular case it's Basic authentication:

 

So in order to address this issue, there are Username and Password fields in monitor settings which will work with the Webdriver agent: