Automating authentication with Watir - ruby

Question

I've searched and searched for this, but I can't seem to get this automation to work. Having used all of the basic authentication code on the OpenQA site, I still cannot get the authentication box to work.
I'm using IE8, with a website that has HTTPS enabled.
By using Watir I'm able to open IE to the correct page, but nothing I try allows me to enter any content into the login form.
Here is the code I've whittled it down to:
require 'watir'
url = 'https://thewebsite.com'
#username = 'myusername'
#password = 'mypassword'
browser = Watir::Browser.new
browser.goto url
sleep 5
Watir.autoit.WinWait('Blank Page')
Watir.autoit.Send(#username)
Watir.autoit.Send('{TAB}')
Watir.autoit.Send(#password)
Watir.autoit.Send('{ENTER}')
Does anyone have any suggestions, or links? A lot of the information I've found on the OpenQA site seems quite out of date.
Thanks

Answer 1

Did you try RAutomation instead of autoit?

Answer 2

Have you tried using the url with user and pass in it? like url = 'https://username:password#thewebsite.com', you can try visiting the url manually in a browser, if it works manually it should work in your script too.

Answer 3

I came here having the same problem, although it looks like the answer is different due to the latest version of Watir and watir-webdriver. I'll show what worked for me using:
watir (4.0.2 x86-mingw32)
watir-classic (3.6.0)
watir-webdriver (0.6.2)
Watir doesn't have autoit built in any more and it looks like the other suggestion I found (require 'watir/ie') doesn't work any more either. In the spirit of solving this with the original tech requested:
Make sure after installation AutoIT has been registered with windows.
Go to the AutotIT dll (installed with the rautomation gem mentioned above, think Watir installed this)
cd C:\Ruby193\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\rautomation-0.8.0\ext\AutoItX
regsvr32 AutoItX3.dll
Then the code below should work
require 'watir'
require 'win32ole'
$b = Watir::Browser.new :ie
begin
$b.goto( 'http://10.254.157.34:8383/mywebsite/stuff.html');
rescue Exception => e
puts "Trapped Error, expecting modal dialog exception"
puts e.backtrace
puts "Continuing"
end
login_title = "Windows Security" #For Windows 7, dialog title for anything else
username = "myuser"
password = "mypassword"
sleep 1 #Just in case
au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
win_exists = au3.WinWait(login_title, "", 5)
if (win_exists > 0)
au3.WinActivate(login_title)
au3.Send('!u')
au3.Send(username)
au3.Send('{TAB}')
au3.Send(password)
au3.Send('{ENTER}')
end