How to get HTTP Response Code using Selenium WebDriver

Question

I have written tests with Selenium2/WebDriver and want to test if HTTP Request returns an HTTP 403 Forbidden.

Is it possible to get the HTTP response status code with Selenium WebDriver?

Answer 1

You can use BrowserMob proxy to capture the requests and responses with a HttpRequestInterceptor. Here is an example in Java:

// Start the BrowserMob proxy
ProxyServer server = new ProxyServer(9978);
server.start();

server.addResponseInterceptor(new HttpResponseInterceptor()
{
    @Override
    public void process(HttpResponse response, HttpContext context)
        throws HttpException, IOException
    {
        System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
    }
});

// Get selenium proxy
Proxy proxy = server.seleniumProxy();

// Configure desired capability for using proxy server with WebDriver
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);

// Set up driver
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);

driver.get("https://example.com/questions/6509628/webdriver-get-http-response-code");

// Close the browser
driver.quit();