How to make Selenium use localhost proxy

Question

I have a perl based selenium script with the following statement :

$sel = Test::WWW::Selenium->new( host => "localhost", 
                            port => 4444, 
                            browser => "*chrome", 
                            browser_url => "https://$ARGV[0]/" );

This throws up the Firefox browser. I want that when the Firefox browser is thrown up it is configured to use my proxy namely 127.0.0.1:8080 where I have a proxy service already started. How can I accomplish this without making any changes to the above shown code?

You get Firefox when you ask Selenium for "*chrome"? Odd. Also note that "throw up" means "to puke". Use "starts" instead. — Aaron Digulla, Nov 13 '13 at 10:31

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

For Firefox, you need to create a profile for Selenium. Start Firefox with -ProfileManager -no-remote to be able to select this profile. Configure it accordingly.

When starting Firefox with the Selenium webdriver, you can then specify the profile to use with webdriver.firefox.profile

I couldn't find a solution to achieve the same with the Perl API. You might have to hack the sources to be able to specify the profile. Just add -P plus the name of the profile to the command line options of the browser process.

Alternatively, you can insert a script in the path variable before you run the tests. For example, on Unix:

#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/firefox -P selenium

Save this in, say, $HOME/selenium/bin/firefox, make this new file executable and:

export PATH="$HOME/selenium/bin/firefox;$PATH"

The tests will not think that the script is the firefox executable and run that. The script will then run Firefox with the correct parameters.

How to make Selenium use localhost proxy

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