Selenium Chrome suppress/dismiss client certificate selection dialog

Question

How can I suppress or automatically dismiss the client certificate selection dialog with selenium (chrome driver)?

I can't use this certificate, because it is stored on a chip card and I would have to enter a PIN. If no card is available, our website used a credential based login and I want to test this.

That's a dialog from chrome (not opened by client side code). It pops up if the website sends certain headers that signal the acceptance of client certificates. It's displayed like an alert dialog. — Sven-Michael Stübe, Jul 24 '15 at 08:06
Can this popup be bypassed this way? http://user:password@example.com — automatictester, Jul 24 '15 at 09:22

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '18 at 10:12

I found a solution to this problem: You must use chrome parameter - AutoSelectCertificateForUrls

Add this to the windows registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\AutoSelectCertificateForUrls\1 = "{"pattern":"https://yoursite.com","filter":{}}"

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 21 '21 at 14:17

In linux you need this file set:

$HOME/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/auto_select_certificate.json

With this content:

{
  "AutoSelectCertificateForUrls": [ "{\"pattern\":\"*\",\"filter\":{}}" ]
}

With this set it should allow every installed client certificate automatically.

Detailed article about how to solve it in C# with Docker can be found in an article I wrote here: https://sgedda.medium.com/running-selenium-with-chromedriver-together-with-client-certificate-set-in-headful-mode-with-net-a79bde19e472

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 10:14

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Try to launch chrome using "--ignore-certificate-errors" and "--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests" arguments.

ChromeOptions opts = new ChromeOptions();
opts.addArguments("ignore-certificate-errors","ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(opts);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
System.out.println("Title:" + driver.getTitle());

answered Jul 24 '15 at 10:14

srees

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No it still shows the dialog :( I tried it with `ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests` and `--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests` – Sven-Michael Stübe Jul 24 '15 at 11:19
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The funny thing is: If I add this to the command line arguments of my chrome desktop link, it is working. But not with Selenium. And for `ignore-certificate-errors` chrome says, that this is an unknown command line switch. But other parameters like `--start-maximized`are passed correctly. – Sven-Michael Stübe Jul 24 '15 at 11:36
@Sven-MichaelStübe please raise an issue with chromedriver in below link: https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues – srees Aug 04 '15 at 05:37
Sven-Michael, did you find out this problem? I need exactly the same. Thanks! – brobee Dec 04 '17 at 18:01

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 12 '22 at 19:14

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Try below code. It worked for me:

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.addArguments("--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests");
webDriver = New ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);

answered Oct 12 '22 at 19:14

Soumyabrata Saha

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 03 '23 at 19:41

I had the same problem. You can cancel this confirmation pop-up directly in Selenium by adding the following argument to ChromeOptions: "--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests".

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests");
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

You have to add :

chrome_options.add_argument('--ignore-urlfetcher-cert-requests')

In any case, it worked for me !

Selenium Chrome suppress/dismiss client certificate selection dialog

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