[🐛 Bug]: WebDriverException while using Basic Auth

[sathanRaj]

Description

I'm using selenium grid for automation and configured user name and password for hub.
when the the webdriver actions(geturl,screenshot,click) triggered too frequently session terminates after 180 secs.
working fine when there is no authentication configured

Reproducible Code

import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.UsernameAndPassword;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.ClientConfig;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;
import java.time.Duration;

public class SeleniumBasicAuth{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        WebDriver driver  = null;
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        try {

            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.setBrowserVersion("133");
            options.setCapability("browserName","chrome");
            options.addArguments("--headless=new");

            driver = new RemoteWebDriver(getHttpCommandExecutor(),options);
            driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(180));
            driver.manage().timeouts().scriptTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(180));
            driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

            for (int i=0;i<500;i++){
                System.out.println(i);
                driver.get("https://qengine.zoho.com/");
                takeSnapShot(driver,"Screenshots"+File.separator+i+".jpg");
            }

        }
        catch (Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        finally {
            if (driver != null){
                driver.quit();
            }
            System.out.println(((System.currentTimeMillis()-startTime)/1000));

        }
    }

    public static void takeSnapShot(WebDriver webdriver, String fileWithPath) throws Exception{

        TakesScreenshot scrShot =((TakesScreenshot)webdriver);

        File SrcFile=scrShot.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

        File DestFile=new File(fileWithPath);

        FileUtils.copyFile(SrcFile, DestFile);

    }

    private static HttpCommandExecutor getHttpCommandExecutor() throws Exception {
        ClientConfig clientConfig = ClientConfig.defaultConfig()
                .baseUrl(new URL("http://localhost:8444"))
                .authenticateAs(new UsernameAndPassword("password","myStrongPassword"))
                ;
        HttpCommandExecutor executor = new HttpCommandExecutor(clientConfig);

        return executor;
    }

}

Debugging Logs

13-May-2025 11:42:36.064 WARNING [pool-6-thread-1] org.openqa.selenium.remote.tracing.opentelemetry.SeleniumSpanExporter$1.lambda$export$1 org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Build info: version: '4.31.0', revision: '4ae8fc9f8a'
System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '5.10.106', java.version: '11.0.14.1'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.jdk.JdkHttpClient.execute(JdkHttpClient.java:419)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.tracing.TracedHttpClient.execute(TracedHttpClient.java:54)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.web.ReverseProxyHandler.execute(ReverseProxyHandler.java:91)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.router.HandleSession.execute(HandleSession.java:183)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$PredicatedRoute.handle(Route.java:397)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.router.Router.execute(Router.java:89)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.web.CheckOriginHeader.lambda$apply$0(CheckOriginHeader.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.web.CheckContentTypeHeader.lambda$apply$0(CheckContentTypeHeader.java:75)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.web.EnsureSpecCompliantResponseHeaders.lambda$apply$0(EnsureSpecCompliantResponseHeaders.java:34)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$NestedRoute.handle(Route.java:270)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.grid.security.BasicAuthenticationFilter.lambda$apply$0(BasicAuthenticationFilter.java:54)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route$CombinedRoute.handle(Route.java:360)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Route.execute(Route.java:69)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.AddWebDriverSpecHeaders.lambda$apply$0(AddWebDriverSpecHeaders.java:35)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorFilter.lambda$apply$0(ErrorFilter.java:44)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorFilter.lambda$apply$0(ErrorFilter.java:44)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter$1.execute(Filter.java:63)
	at org.openqa.selenium.netty.server.SeleniumHandler.lambda$channelRead0$0(SeleniumHandler.java:49)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.InterruptedException
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.reportGet(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.get(Unknown Source)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.jdk.JdkHttpClient.execute(JdkHttpClient.java:413)
	... 33 more

[selenium-ci]

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

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[github-actions]

⚠️ You reported using Selenium version 4.31.0, but the latest release is 4.32.

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[VietND96]

Checkout the example in https://www.selenium.dev/documentation/webdriver/drivers/http_client/
Can you try to use RemoteWebDriver.builder()