Authenticate Command interrupted by Proxy Redirect

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I’m building a test case for automated logins on a closed server environment. Because one of the applications has a non-webpage login interface (see screenshot below), I have to use the Authenticate command instead of targeting the username and password fields.

The problem is, the closed environment has a strict proxy access policy, where all application pages, such as the one shown above, have to be accessed through a link portal page. If you try to access the site directly using the URL or a bookmark, the proxy will automatically redirect the user to a warning banner, and then to the link portal. This interrupts the Authenticate command, which uses URL navigation.

Is there a workaround for this?

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I’m guessing by the silence that there is no actual solution for this…

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It’s HTTP basic authentication? If yes you can try change URL to e.g. http://username:password@example.com/ to avoid that “problem”.

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No, that’s not going to work; http won’t resolve to the actual page. That’s not the issue I’m facing anyway; I need to have a way to either remove the url navigation step from the webui.Authenticate command, or insert a set of navigation clicks between the url navigation and the entering of a username/password.