Watin Login Dialog

[qrazy]

Hey guys,
I am using C# with watin to run some tests in vista and XP without any issues. I wanted to upgrade to windows server 2008 and ran into problems authenticating the proxy server because the authentication dialog seem to have changed in windows 7 & 2008 platforms. I haven't looked into this much and thought many people would've encountered similar issues and resolved them.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

 

[qrazy]

bumping.....................

 

[qrazy]

Bump... Anyone??????????

 

[Gramking]

Instead of actually filling out any dialog, I suggest authenticating through the HTTP headers.

 

[qrazy]

Thanks for the reply. I know to use the proxy credentials if it's thru WebRequest. Here I am just using the IE object of the Watin to do everything. I am not quite sure how do I control the headers sent when using Watin. Any tip to accomplish this?

Instead of actually filling out any dialog, I suggest authenticating through the HTTP headers.

 

[Gramking]

Thanks for the reply. I know to use the proxy credentials if it's thru WebRequest. Here I am just using the IE object of the Watin to do everything. I am not quite sure how do I control the headers sent when using Watin. Any tip to accomplish this?

I'll be honest, I've never used Watin -- but if it is the same as a normal browser control, one of the overloads should be header options.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms161356.aspx

additionalHeaders
Type: System.String
HTTP headers to add to the default headers.

 

[Gramking]

It would work like this:

browser.Navigate("http://google.com/", null, null, "User-Agent: Testbot 1.0");

Anyhow, if you can write this in HttpWebRequest, go for it. There is absolutely no reason to use Watin whatsoever.

 

[qrazy]

Thanks buddy. I've used navigate to do this. But I am not sure if watin supports such. And the problem is I don't have a development environment on windows 2008 :-(. As the program already works with watin I wouldn't be changing that to Webrequest. I am looking into the code of watin to see if it supports any header modification.

I am sure some would've encountered this and hope to get some solution soon

It would work like this:

browser.Navigate("http://google.com/", null, null, "User-Agent: Testbot 1.0");

Anyhow, if you can write this in HttpWebRequest, go for it. There is absolutely no reason to use Watin whatsoever.

 

[RottenYellow]

Not sure if I understood your issue correctly, but one thing you could do is use watin with firefox and edit firefox configuration file to setup proxy. I can give you a source I wrote to do that.

 

[qrazy]

That would be of great help.

Not sure if I understood your issue correctly, but one thing you could do is use watin with firefox and edit firefox configuration file to setup proxy. I can give you a source I wrote to do that.

 

[RottenYellow]

Here you go: http://pastebin.com/baBhEUfj
I wrote it long time ago, so it's messy and has bunch of extra code you don't need (like the Log method)

Here's the class:


public partial class FireFoxNetworkSettings
{
public string http;
public int http_port;
public string socks = "";
public int socks_port = 0;
public int proxy_type = 5;
}

Good luck and let me know if you have any questions

 

[handmadebots]

I am also using watin in some cases... to use proxy in every windows (if you're using the IE browser) search on google for "change ie proxy from regedit c#" and you will find your answer.

 

[Blackberry_11]

Please write more about it ,
because a dialogue need a descriptive area to analysis.