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-===== Handling Basic Auth for Web Apps ===== 
  
-Many web sites and web applications require some kind of access control to certain web pages. One way to do this is to use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication|HTTP Basic Authentication]]. There are others options but HTTP Basic Authentication is the most popular and easiest to configure and manage. 
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-The use of such user authentication poses challenges to web app testing as the popup login window (example: http://testoptimal.com/img/httpBasicAuth.png) can not be recognized by either Selenium or Htmlunit. TestOptimal addresses this problem with an mScript method $webAuth(...). The details and usage of this method is described below. 
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-    $webAuth(authType, userID, password, waitMillis, gotoURL) 
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-  * authType_p: the type of authentication currently only //HttpBasicAuth//is supported. Other types of authentications are in the works. 
-  * userID_p: the login user id 
-  * password_p: the password 
-  * waitMillis_p: number of milliseconds to launch the first page after logging in 
-  * gotoURL_p: first web page to goto after the logging in 
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-   Example: $webAuth('HttpBasicAuth', 'myId', 'myPwd','500','http://myapp.abc.com') 
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-All you have to do is to set your appURL for the model to any page protected by HTTP Basic Authentication and then place the above mScript method call in //MBT_start// trigger. That's it. 
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-Execute your model and you should see the HTTP Basic Authentication login window pop up, the system automatically enters the user id and password you supplied in //$webAuth(...)// method and navigates to //gotoURL_p// and your model execution continues.