Selenium firefox - WebDriverException: Reached error page: about:certerror

Question

Meta :-

• Firefox v51.0.1 (32-bit)
• Windows 10
• Selenium 3.0.1
• Geckodriver Win32 v0.13.0
• Java v1.8.0_71

Steps to reproduce :-

WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.get("untrusted/self-signed URL")

Stacktrace :-

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Reached error page: about:certerror?e=nssBadCert&u=xxxxxxxx&c=UTF-8&f=regular&d=xxxxxx%20uses%20an%20invalid%20security%20certificate.%0A%0AThe%20certificate%20is%20not%20trusted%20because%20it%20is%20self-signed.%0AThe%20certificate%20is%20not%20valid%20for%20the%20name%20xxxxxx%0A%0AError%20code%3A%20%3Ca%20id%3D%22errorCode%22%20title%3D%22SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER%22%3ESEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER%3C/a%3E%0A Build info: version: '3.0.1', revision: '1969d75', time: '2016-10-18 09:48:19 -0700' System info: host: 'Saurabh-PC', ip: '192.168.3.8', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_71' Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver

Screenshot :-

I have also tried using FirefoxProfile as :-

DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
dc.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile();
profile.setAcceptUntrustedCertificates(true);

dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, profile);

WebDriver driver =  new FirefoxDriver(dc);
driver.get("untrusted/self-signed URL");

But issue is the same as above.

Reference Link which have tried :-

• How to disable Firefox's untrusted connection warning using Selenium?
• https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/webdriver/frWtNrEwNPk
• Handling UntrustedSSLcertificates using WebDriver

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According to this bug Support for untrusted/self-signed certificates has been added via bug 1103196 and will be available starting with Firefox 52.

But I could not find any solution for Firefox v51.0.1 (32-bit).

Is there any way to solve this issue using Firefox v51.0.1 (32-bit)?

Answer 1

As in this bug mentioned Support for untrusted/self-signed certificates will be available starting with Firefox 52, we need to wait until Firefox 52 is not released.

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Solution :- For now, as alternate solution we need to use existing Firefox profile where the certificate for untrusted/self-signed URL is already added into Firefox's exception list.

How to create custom Firefox profile for selenium?

• Need to follow this link to create manually custom Firefox profile
• Add manually certificate for untrusted/self-signed URL into Firefox's exception list

• Launch Firefox using existing profile as :-

  System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "path/to/geckodriver")
  
  ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
  FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("created Profile Name");
  
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile);
  driver.get("untrusted/self-signed URL");