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how to ignore ssl errors in headless chrome java

See original GitHub issue

Selenium headless chrome testing with java in unix returns empty page source as

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head></head><body></body></html> which was due to accessing the secure http (https) website.

Is there a way to ignore the ssl certificate issue? Please let me know how to ignore it.

Selenium Version 3.7.1…java version 1.8.0.144 chrome driver version 2.33 Chrome Version 62+

I gave a try with options below…but it doesn’t seem to work.

1. ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
            options.setHeadless(true);DesiredCapabilities capabilities = 
   DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
                capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList("--
                ignore-certificate-errors,--web-security=false,--ssl-
                protocol=any,--ignore-ssl-errors=true"));
   capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
   driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

2. DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
        capabilities.setCapability (CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
        capabilities.setCapability (CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true);
        capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
   driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);

Am i doing this in a right way? Let me know the trick to make it work

Thanks in advance

Complete Code:

WebDriver driver = null;

        try {

            String filePath = "Path to driver";
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", filePath);

            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.addArguments("--headless");
            options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
            options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
            options.addArguments("test-type");

            String[] switches = {"--ignore-certificate-errors"};

            DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
            capabilities.setCapability("chrome.switches", Arrays.asList(switches));
            capabilities.setCapability (CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
            capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

            driver = new ChromeDriver(capabilities);
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            driver.get("https://meta.stackexchange.com");
            driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
            System.out.println("PAGE SOURCE : \n" + driver.getPageSource());

        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            driver.close();
            driver.quit();
        }

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Created 6 years ago
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c4bbagecommented, Sep 26, 2018

python script

capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.CHROME
capabilities['loggingPrefs'] = {'performance': 'ALL'}
capabilities['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True

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xyshiocommented, Sep 24, 2018

Hi Guys. I also encountered this problem and looks like solution for my case was adding into chrome options following capability types:

	  		chromeOptions.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
	  		chromeOptions.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_INSECURE_CERTS, true);

I hope will help you as well…

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