What Is A Certificate Error?

What are the ways to handle self signed certificate error in IE8 using Selenium Webdriver + Java?

• I am literally stuck to this problem for two days now. Scenario: The website that needs to be tested has a self signed certificate. So Internet Explorer (8 in windows XP_ shows "The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority. The security certificate presented by this website was issued for a different website's address." Now this is perfectly natural in case of IE8 and self-signing certificates so I took the following measures to no use Manually added/installed the certificate as a Trusted Root Certificate in IE. But it doesn't get shown in the list, but it gets successfully added to all other tabs i.e. trusted root publisher,Intermediate Publisher Authority,Other People. The same certificate gets added to firefox without any problems under "servers" and works just as expected. I tried using the following codes but one of them worked for selenium Proxy proxy = new Proxy(); proxy.setProxyType(ProxyType.MANUAL); Proxy.setSslProxy("trustAllSSLCertificates"); DesiredCapabilities capabilities1 = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer(); capabilities1.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy); When this doesn't work I tried using DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();                             capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true); I have the cybervillans certificate already installed. I have tried the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_ERROR_PAGE_BYPASS_ZONE_CHECK_FOR_HTTPS_KB954312 method knowing full well it is for win7. 5.I have even tried changing the URL to the issued authority but even then the problem persists. And now I am stuck with no alternatives. Can anyone point it out to me how I can proceed? It seems I'm eternally stuck with IE8. I have searched a lot in Google as well as in this site. But couldn't find a solution to my problem.

• Answer:

  I wrote up an article of how to do this with Selenium RC: http://blog.mogotest.com/2010/04/13/how-to-accept-self-signed-ssl-certificates-in-selenium/ While not directly applicable, the general concepts are the same.  Rather than use the Selenium Server as the proxy server, however, you should use the BrowserMob Proxy: http://opensource.webmetrics.com/browsermob-proxy/ Basically, you instruct Windows / IE to trust the CyberVillains cert.  IE connects to the BrowserMob Proxy and that proxy signs all SSL traffic using the CyberVillains cert. I really should get a Selenium WebDriver article up on how to do this. But that should get you going.