I am currently at the London Tester Gathering Workshops in a session being hosted by Bill Matthews. He is showing the attendees how to use Zap Proxy. During the class he mentioned that you can hook your existing WebDriver checks into a proxy. Something I also mentioned in my recent “WebDriver Beyond Checks” post.
So I thought I would create a quick post showing you how you can do this. I am not using Zap, instead I am using Fiddler, but you just need the right proxy url and change accordingly.
Here is how you do it in C# using Firefox and Chrome drivers.
Firefox
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| public void SettingUpAProxyUsingFirefoxDriver() | |
| { | |
| //Create a new Firefox profile | |
| var firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile(); | |
| //Create a new proxy object | |
| var proxy = new Proxy(); | |
| //Set the http proxy value, host and port. | |
| proxy.HttpProxy = "localhost:8888"; | |
| //We then add this proxt setting to the Firefox profile we created | |
| firefoxProfile.SetProxyPreferences(proxy); | |
| //Then create a new Firefox Driver passing in the profile we created | |
| //WebDriver we open a Firefox using this profile now | |
| var Driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile); | |
| //Navigate to a url and look at the traffic being logged in Fiddler. | |
| Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://bbc.co.uk"); | |
| } |
Chrome
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| public void SettupUpAProxyUsingChromeDriver() | |
| { | |
| //Create a chrome options object | |
| var chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions(); | |
| //Create a new proxy object | |
| var proxy = new Proxy(); | |
| //Set the http proxy value, host and port. | |
| proxy.HttpProxy = "localhost:8888"; | |
| //Set the proxy to the Chrome options | |
| chromeOptions.Proxy = proxy; | |
| //Then create a new ChromeDriver passing in the options | |
| //ChromeDriver path isn't required if its on your path | |
| //If it now downloaded it and put the path here | |
| var Driver = new ChromeDriver(@"C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\", chromeOptions); | |
| //Navigation to a url and a look at the traffic logged in fiddler | |
| Driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://bbc.co.uk"); | |
| } |
Here is how you do it in Java.
Firefox
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| public void ProxyUsingFirefoxDriver() | |
| { | |
| //Create a new Firefox profile | |
| FirefoxProfile firefoxProfile = new FirefoxProfile(); | |
| //Then add the proxy setting to the Firefox profile we created | |
| firefoxProfile.setPreference("network.proxy.http", "localhost"); | |
| firefoxProfile.setPreference("network.proxy.http_port", "8888"); | |
| //Then create a new Firefox Driver passing in the profile we created | |
| //WebDriver we open a Firefox using this profile now | |
| FirefoxDriver Driver = new FirefoxDriver(firefoxProfile); | |
| //Navigate to a url and look at the traffic being logged in Fiddler. | |
| Driver.navigate().to("http://bbc.co.uk"); | |
| } |
Chrome
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| public void ProxyUsingChromeDriver() | |
| { | |
| //Set the location of the ChromeDriver | |
| System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\Richard\\Desktop\\chromedriver.exe"); | |
| //Create a new desired capability | |
| DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome(); | |
| // Create a new proxy object and set the proxy | |
| Proxy proxy = new Proxy(); | |
| proxy.setHttpProxy("localhost:8888"); | |
| //Add the proxy to our capabilities | |
| capabilities.setCapability("proxy", proxy); | |
| //Start a new ChromeDriver using the capabilities object we created and added the proxy to | |
| ChromeDriver Driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities); | |
| //Navigation to a url and a look at the traffic logged in fiddler | |
| Driver.navigate().to("http://bbc.co.uk"); | |
| } |
There you go, you can now add a proxy to your WebDriver checks, and collate lots of information to explore from various proxies available such as, BrowserMob, Fiddler and ZapProxy.
Happy Proxy-ing.
