Python Windows Authentication Username and Password Is Not Working

Python Windows Authentication username and password is not working

When you work with Selenium 3.4.0, geckodriver v0.18.0, Mozilla Firefox 53.0 through Python 3.6.1 you can bypass the Basic Authentication popup through embedding the username and password in the url itself as follows.

This solution opens the URL http://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth and authenticates with a valid username and password credentials.

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary

binary = FirefoxBinary('C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=binary, executable_path="C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\geckodriver.exe")
driver.get("http://admin:admin@the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth")

How to pass special character in URL in windows authentication?

A simple raw string will do the job, note that I use triple quotes just for escaping any possible errors with ' and ".

driver.get(r'''http://username:password@123@abc.com''')

Handling windows authentication while accessing url using requests

You can use the Authentication feature for that in order to provide the credentials for the link that you want to access.

For an eg:

You can pass the username and password by using the below format:

requests.get('https://website.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass'))

For more details I would recommend the official docs.

For handling the Windows authentication then I would recommend the Requests-NTLM.

For eg:

import requests
from requests_ntlm import HttpNtlmAuth

requests.get("http://ntlm_protected_site.com",auth=HttpNtlmAuth('domain\\username','password'))

Browser automation handling Basic Authorization login prompt

You can even use autoIT to handle the authentication pop up. Other alerts are generated at the client side and that is why you will be able to switch to the alert. But in the case of authentication pop up, server requests you to provide credentials for authentication purpose.

can I use integrated windows authentication with BeautifulSoup?

There is a closed issue at requests-ntlm repo with a question:

Is there a way to authenticate with currently logged user's credentials instead of providing login/password directly inside the script?

And response from author of the lib:

Not as far as I know....

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Also take a look at this question. There are some alternative ways to store your secrets.

Personally I prefer environment variables and something like secrets.py:

import os

user = os.getenv('MY_USER')
password = os.getenv('MY_PASSWORD')

And then you could import your secrets from there:

from secrets import user, password

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Another non so lightweight option is to use playwriht or selenium to open real browser, which might be able to load page without hardcoded login and password

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