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Clear InternetExplorerDriver cookies selenium webdriver

When I create my internetExplorer instance, I use the following:
public static WebDriver internetExplorerWebWDriver() {
DesiredCapabilities returnCapabilities = DesiredCapabilities.internetExplorer();
returnCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.ENABLE_PERSISTENT_HOVERING, false);
returnCapabilities.setCapability(InternetExplorerDriver.IE_ENSURE_CLEAN_SESSION, true);
returnCapabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
returnCapabilities.setCapability("ignoreZoomSetting", true);
return new InternetExplorerDriver(returnCapabilities);
My problem is: I have to open a secondary internetExplorer window with cleared cookie/Cache/Session and authenticate a user during the login.
Right now, using this code, cookie is not deleted because authentication not appears and I cannot login with different user. (seems to me, the first login is saved, and used in the second window)
Any ideas? Thanks!

Have you tried restarting IE after calling DeleteAllCookies each time ?
Placing a driver.quit() in the after class if you using junit ?

I have experimented similar problems, try with the code below in #Before method:
JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
js.executeScript("localStorage.clear();");
js.executeScript("sessionStorage.clear();");
driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Using Selenium on https web application that runs over vpn

First of all, I need to state that I am total beginner with Selenium.
I am trying to test an application in firefox browser using Selenium. Due to security issues the application works only over vpn.
My problem occurs with the following steps; I create the webdriver and navigate to the start (login) page of application. I get an "Authorization request" popup. If I cancel the popup, then I get to a page that states "Connection is not secure" (it's https address). After I get passed that, I lose the part where Selenium program should populate username and password and it just stays on the login page.
My question, is there a way to start Selenium testing on an application so that it is already opened and prepared (ie logged in) in browser? I am not happy that username and password are hard-coded in Selenium code.
If that is not possible, how do I skip that authorization popup and problem with non-secure connection? How do I populate username and password in safest way?
Thanks!
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "C:\\Selenium-java-3.0.1\\geckodriver.exe");
// I tried also with this code bellow in comment, but it did not work, it did not even get to login page
//WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
//Alert alert = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
//alert.authenticateUsing(new UserAndPassword("cfadmin", "20lipim18"));
driver.get("https://Application_login_page.com");
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='login']")).click();
driver.findElement(By.xpath("[#id='login']")).sendKeys("Username");
}

if it's possible, is there a way to start Selenium testing on application that is already opened and prepared (logged) in browser?
Try using firefox profile. Since selenium open fresh instance of browser by default. You can use your own firefox frofile.
This is a code to implement a profile, which can be embedded in the selenium code.
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
// this will create an object for the Firefox profile
FirefoxProfile myprofile = profile.getProfile("default");
// this will Initialize the Firefox driver
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(myprofile)
It will also maintain the session means you are already login to the application in firefox(default profile). Then if you execute the script, you will see that you are already logged in to the application.

There is no way to open already authorised page, you have to have to pass username and password through selenium script.
You may use below code to do the authentication
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);
Alert alert = wait.until(ExpectedConditions.alertIsPresent());
alert.authenticateUsing(new UserAndPassword(username, password));

Avoid the execution stop while browsing in Selenium WebDriver

I need help for this thing that's driving me crazy.
I want to check the browser url in and endless loop, waiting a little (Thread.Sleep) between a loop and another, to not overload the CPU. Then, if the browser url is what I need, I want to add/change/remove an element through Javascript before the page is fully loaded, otherwise the person who uses this could see the change. (I don't need help for the javascript part)
But there's a problem: it seems that in Selenium Webdriver when I navigate to a page (with .get(), .navigate().to() or also directly from the client) the execution is forced to stop until the page is loaded.
I tried to set a "fake" timeout, but (at least in Chrome) when it catches the TimeoutException, the page stops loading. I know that in Firefox there's an option for unstable loading, but I don't want to use it because my program isn't only for Firefox.
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(0, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS); // Fake timeout
while (true) {
try {
// If the url (driver.getCurrentUrl()) is what I want, then execute javascript without needing that page is fully loaded
// ...
// ...
}
catch (TimeoutException e) {
// It ignores the Exception, but unfortunately the page stops loading.
}
Thread.sleep(500); // Then wait some time to not overload the cpu
}
}
I need to do this in Chrome, and if possible with Firefox and Internet Explorer. I'm programming in Java. Thanks in advance.

Selenium is designed to stop once the webpage is loaded into the browser so that it can proceed with execution.
In your case there are two options:
1) If the browser url will change automatically (ajax) at an arbitrary time, then just keep getting browser url until your condition satisfies.
while(currentURL.equals("Your Condition")){
currentURL = driver.getCurrentUrl();
Thread.sleep(2000);
}
2) If the browser needs to be refreshed use the refresh method in a loop until you get your desired url
while(currentURL.equals("Your Condition")){
driver.navigate().refresh();
currentURL =
Thread.sleep(2000);
}

As know, if user tried with driver.get("url");, selenium waits until page is loaded (may not be very long). so if you want to do some thing on navigate to URL without waiting total load time use below code instead of get or navigate
JavascriptExecutor js=(JavascriptExecutor)driver;
js.executeScript("window.open('http://seleniumtrainer.com/components/buttons/','_self');");
After this used
driver.findElement(By.id("button1")).click();
to click on button but i am getting no such element exception, so i am expecting its not waiting for page load. so times page loading very quick and click working fine.
i hope this will help you to figure it out your issue at start up. for loop i hope solution already provided.
Thanks

Selenium WebDriver FirefoxBinary#startProfile

What is the point of the method FirefoxBinary#startProfile?
How would one control a browser opened using the above method?
FirefoxBinary binary = new FirefoxBinary(new File("path\\to\\binary.exe"));
String profilePath = "path\\to\\profile";
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(new File(profilePath));
binary.startProfile(profile, profilePath, "");
//A browser opens at this point, but how do I send it commands or attach
//it to a WebDriver?

The purpose of the method is to do exactly what it does: start an instance of Firefox using the specified profile. WebDriver makes a copy of the profile in the temp directory and adds the WebDriver Firefox extension into this copy of the profile. Th startProfile method launches Firefox, making sure to clean up the profile so that it's usable by the new instance. If you know what port the browser extension that gets added to the profile is listening on, you could connect to it and control the browser using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol commands.
However, unless you really know what you're doing, this is the complicated way to do it. You're far better off calling the FirefoxDriver constructor, passing in the FirefoxBinary object, and letting the internals of the constructor call the startProfile method for you.

prevent external content to be loaded in selenium webdriver test

The question:
Is is possible to tell a browser that is controlled by selenium webdriver to not load any content from external sources, or alternatively, not load resources from a given list of domains?
Backround:
I have a webpage against which I write a java based test script with selenium webdriver - I can't change the page, I just have to write the tests. There are issues with some external content that the site loads from another domain. The external stuff is some javascript code that is actually not needed for my tests, but that the page in question includes. Now the problem. Sometimes the external sources are super slow, preventing the the webdriver to load the page within the given page load timeout (20 sec). My tests actually would run fine, because the page is in fact loaded - all html is there, all internal scripts are loaded and would work.
Random thoughts about this:
There are extensions for different browsers that would do what I ask, but I need to run my tests with several browsers, namely chrome, firefox and phantomjs. And there is no such thing like phantomjs extensions. I need a solution that is purely based on the webdriver technology if possible. I am willing to program a separate solution for each browser, though.
I appreciate any idea about how to address this.

Solution is to use proxy. Webdriver integrates very well with browsermob proxy: http://bmp.lightbody.net/
private WebDriver initializeDriver() throws Exception {
// Start the server and get the selenium proxy object
ProxyServer server = new ProxyServer(proxy_port); // package net.lightbody.bmp.proxy
server.start();
server.setCaptureHeaders(true);
// Blacklist google analytics
server.blacklistRequests("https?://.*\\.google-analytics\\.com/.*", 410);
// Or whitelist what you need
server.whitelistRequests("https?://*.*.yoursite.com/.*. https://*.*.someOtherYourSite.*".split(","), 200);
Proxy proxy = server.seleniumProxy(); // Proxy is package org.openqa.selenium.Proxy
// configure it as a desired capability
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);
// start the driver ;
Webdriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
return driver;
}
EDIT:
people are often asking for http status codes, you can easily retrive them using the proxy. Code can be something like this:
// create a new har with given label
public void setHar(String label) {
server.newHar(label);
}
public void getHar() throws IOException {
// FIXME : What should be done with the this data?
Har har = server.getHar();
if (har == null) return;
File harFile = new File("C:\\localdev\\bla.har");
har.writeTo(harFile);
for (HarEntry entry : har.getLog().getEntries()) {
// Check for any 4XX and 5XX HTTP status codes
if ((String.valueOf(entry.getResponse().getStatus()).startsWith("4"))
|| (String.valueOf(entry.getResponse().getStatus()).startsWith("5"))) {
log.warn(String.format("%s %d %s", entry.getRequest().getUrl(), entry.getResponse().getStatus(),
entry.getResponse().getStatusText()));
//throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not implemented");
}
}
}

You can chain the proxy, there isn't much documentation out there about doing so:
http://www.nerdnuts.com/2014/10/browsermob-behind-a-corporate-proxy/
We were able to use browsermob behind a corporate proxy using the following code:
// start the proxy
server = new ProxyServer(9090);
server.start();
server.setCaptureContent(true);
server.setCaptureHeaders(true);
server.addHeader(“accept-encoding”, “”);//turn off gzip
// Configure proxy server to use our network proxy
server.setLocalHost(InetAddress.getByName(“127.0.0.1″));
/**
* THIS IS THE MAJICK!
**/
HashMap<String, String> options = new HashMap<String, String>();
options.put(“httpProxy”, “172.20.4.115:8080″);
server.setOptions(options);
server.autoBasicAuthorization(“172.20.4.115″, “username”, “password”);
// get the Selenium proxy object
Proxy proxy = server.seleniumProxy();
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.phantomjs();
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.PROXY, proxy);