Turn off SSL for scenarios with Selenium

Selenium does not speak SSL because it uses WEBrick that doesn't. When you use Selenium for Cucumber scenarios that visit pages with SSL, they will fail.

To turn off SSL only for scenarios that are executed on WEBrick, put this method into your application controller.

def ensure_proper_protocol
  request.headers['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].andand.include?('WEBrick') || super
end

Dominik Schöler

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License

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...

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Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-09-07 08:25)

Turn off SSL for scenarios with Selenium

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