Selenium specific use case

[titusfortner]

The Selenium drivers do not currently accept credentials when using a proxy to route communication between the internet and the browser.

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/issues/1872 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=4118

This application may be an easy way for Selenium users that are behind an authenticated proxy to create a MITM instance and put Forwarder information in the Selenium Options class for the driver, and then configure Forwarder with the authentication credentials needed by the proxy on the system. If this can be documented or explained or if there is a tutorial, then we can publicize it and link to it from the Selenium documentation.

[Choraden]

In order to configure forwarder that way user needs to set up upstream proxy see --proxy flag The basic authentication username and password can be specified in the host string e.g. user:pass@authenticated-proxy:port.

Optionally, if they need to inject authentication credentials/modify HTTP requests that are encrypted, they need to:

• set up a MITM to terminate TLS, see the tutorial https://forwarder-proxy.io/tutorials/mitm/.
• set up authentication credentials see --credentials flag

Generally forwarder's documentation has all the needed ingredients to make such explanation. However, I believe Selenium documentation is a place where it can be got together for its specific use case.

[titusfortner]

@diemol what do you think of this idea? Is it worth documenting a demo of it?

[diemol]

Could be a good idea. Maybe in the test practices section?

[titusfortner]

I don't know how to create an environment where an authenticated driver proxy is required, so we can demo not working vs working.