Selenium Download Keep and Discard Problem (.cer or xml extensions)

Question

I'm Test Automation Engineer, working with Selenium and Java. I'm developing selenium automation tests, but I have a problem with downloading something from the software I'm working on.

Chrome asks me the security question in order to download Keep or Discard, but in selenium, as you know I cant click the Chrome window.

So I did try a few methods to get rid of this problem in Chrome, but I couldn't find a solution and this is important for me to continue to develop automation, that's why I wanted to ask if you know a solution to this issue.

I download the XML file or cer file, I get a This type of file can harm your computer pop up. I want to disable this pop up using selenium ChromeDriver and I want these types of files to be downloaded always. How can this be done?

My configuration:

1. Chrome version:80.0
2. Selenium version: 3.8.1
3. Chromedriver version: 2.42

I found this code, but cap object in DesiredCapabilities doesn't work with ChromeDriver anymore;

HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
chromePrefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", "true"); 
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap); //this driver doesnt work anymore 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
prefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", true);
prefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\prave\\Downloads\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver driver=new ChromeDriver(options);
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait (driver, 20);

driver.get("http://www.landxmlproject.org/file-cabinet");
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable(By.xpath("//span[text()='MntnRoad.xml']//following::span[1]//a[text()='Download']"))).click();

Just use : setExperimentalOptions , safebrowsing.enabled and ("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);

You can use:

 options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);

if you want to accept insecure cert

Answer 2

To hide the warning This type of file can harm your computer and enable downloading of xml type of files using Chrome/ChromeDriver you need to:

• Add the preferences:

  • download.default_directory
  • download.prompt_for_download
  • download.extensions_to_open
  • safebrowsing.enabled

• As well as add the following arguments to whilelist:

  • --safebrowsing-disable-download-protection
  • safebrowsing-disable-extension-blacklist

• Code Block:

  System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Utility\\BrowserDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
  Map<String, Object> prefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
  prefs.put("download.default_directory", "C:/Utility/Downloads/");
  prefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", false);
  prefs.put("download.extensions_to_open", "application/xml");
  prefs.put("safebrowsing.enabled", true);
  ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
  options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", prefs);
  options.addArguments("start-maximized");
  options.addArguments("--safebrowsing-disable-download-protection");
  options.addArguments("safebrowsing-disable-extension-blacklist");
  WebDriver driver =  new ChromeDriver(options); 
  driver.get("http://www.website.com");