Selenium WebDriver Handling Windows Server Authentication using powershell - powershell

Question

Selenium Webdriver based test using powershell and chrome,
The windows server, is returning an authentication pop up window.
This is my current script:
$CDriver = New-Object OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver
$CDriver.Navigate().GoToURL('http://mytestserver/login/')
$CDriver.Navigate().GoToURL('http://admin:adm!n#mytestserver/login/')
I understand, that i will not be able to use elements, as this isn't a message from the website itself.
But i'm trying to understand if i can use the Alert mechanism in Selenium Webdriver,
Instead of passing the username and password, into the actual url?
This what i tried so far, but with no successes:
$alert = $CDriver.SwitchTo().Alert()
$alert.SendKeys("admin");
$alert.SendKeys("adm!n");
$alert.SwitchTo().Alert().Accept();
Also,
Is there is any official documentation for Selenium WebDriver and powershell?

Answer 1

Many websites would rediret to a authentication site while accepting the credentials.
This renders $CDriver.Navigate().GoToURL('http://admin:adm!n#mytestserver/login/') useless.
An option which worked for me was as follows:
[Ofcourse this is in java, but i hope you figure it out]
`//url=orignal url of your application.
driver.get(url);
authURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
driver.get("http://admin:adm!n#"+authURL.replaceFirst("https://","");`
Hope that works or please let me know in case of any questions.