Selenium and HTTPS/SSL
I'm running selenium-rc 1.0.3 on a Mac OS X & Windows 7 and both seem to be giving my the annoying accept cert error in firefox. In reading the docs they say I should be able to just use the *firefox run mode and rc should take care of it for me via a proxy or something, but this appears to not work. The only solution that I was able to find on the internet was to create a skeleton profile and pass the path into the rc startup, but thats not a real option. As that doesn't solve problems of testing in IE/Chrome/Safari. Does any know of any other solution that will work.
Selenium-RC docs on HTTPS - http://seleniumhq.org/docs/05_selenium_rc.html#handling-https-and-security-popups
Answer
I have tried the solution given by this article (Thanks elliot) and it works well for me! Basically
1. Create a firefox profile:
a. Starting your firefox -ProfileManager (or firefox -P) in cmd.exe (make sure the firefox installation folder path is in your path environment variable, by default it should be just created when you installed firefox) and create a new profile.
b. Select this new profile to browse to the HTTPS URL and accept the self-signed certificate when prompted.
c. Go to the Firefox profile directory.
d. Delete everything in the directory except for the cert_override.txt and cert8.db files.
2. Run your selenium RC server using this profile:
such as java -jar selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate c:/Firefox_Profile