[🐛 Bug]: RemoteWebDriver - Implementation mismatch since version 4.14.0

[johnny]

What happened?

Since #13802 was closed and cannot be reopened, I needed to create a new ticket.

As a user, I expect urls with embedded authentication to work in Java like in any other language.

http://admin:myStrongPassword@localhost:4444

How can we reproduce the issue?

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/13802

Relevant log output

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues/13802

Operating System

macOS

Selenium version

Java 4.14.0-4.18.1

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

All

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

RemoteWebDriver

Are you using Selenium Grid?

4.18.1

[github-actions]

@johnny, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[diemol]

I understand, but as I mentioned in the other issue, due to changes in the HTTP client, that is how you can connect to authenticated services.

[johnny]

I understand that I can write more code when constructing the RemoteWebDriver. In our case, that wouldn't work though, since we are using fluentlenium.

There is already code in the JdkHttpClient implementation that tries to handle embedded userinfo, but it's broken.

selenium/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/http/jdk/JdkHttpClient.java

Lines 107 to 120 in 2b59996

	if (info != null && !info.trim().isEmpty()) {
	String[] parts = info.split(":", 2);
	String username = parts[0];
	String password = parts.length > 1 ? parts[1] : null;
	Authenticator authenticator =
	new Authenticator() {
	@Override
	protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
	return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
	}
	};
	builder = builder.authenticator(authenticator);
	} else if (credentials != null) {

A fix is easy (drop the user from the url in above linked code) and then Java behaves the same again as other languages.

[diemol]

Would you like to send a PR?

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[joerg1985]

@johnny are you using the selenium server configuration to enable basic auth or some kind of reverse proxy?