TL;DR – You can tell WebDriver to automatically ignore untrusted SSL certificates on Firefox by setting the “webdriver_assume_untrusted_issuer” preference to false in the Firefox profile.
We recently ran into an issue where our tests were failing because Firefox was showing the “This Connection is Untrusted” window. Firefox was complaining that our SSL certificate was not from a trusted source (this happens when you use self-signed certs for development). Here is the screen we were seeing:
Googling the issue brought up a lot of solutions for java, but none that worked for C#. We called it a night, and the next morning, when I got in, my coworkers Jason Bilyeu and Carl Cornett had solved the issue. They found that you can set the “webdriver_assume_untrusted_issuer” preference to “false” in the Firefox profile and it will ignore the cert.
Here is the code:
var profile = new FirefoxProfile(); profile.SetPreference("webdriver_assume_untrusted_issuer", false); return new FirefoxDriver( profile );
I hope this helps anyone who has had issues with this like we did.
