# Using Selenium and webdriver to interact with insecure SSL pages in Firefox

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Author: Admin

Published: 2017-01-23T14:13:56Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Mozilla Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mozilla-automation.md>)

Topics: [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>), [Selenium](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/selenium.md>), [Browser Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/browser-automation.md>), [SSL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssl.md>), [webDriver](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/webdriver.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>)

Tags: [automation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automation.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [marionette](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/marionette.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [mozqa](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozqa.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [selenium](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/selenium.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [test](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/test.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [webdriver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webdriver.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Selenium and Firefox WebDriver to access pages with invalid or self-signed SSL certificates during automated tests. It describes the Firefox 52 and Selenium 3 requirements and shows how to enable insecure certificate acceptance with the acceptInsecureCerts capability.

## Source excerpt

Interacting with insecure SSL pages (eg. self-signed) in an automated test written for Selenium is an important feature. Especially when tests are getting run against locally served test pages. Under those circumstances you might never get fully secured websites served to the browser instance under test. To still allow running your tests with a successful test result, Selenium can instruct the browser to ignore the validity check, which will simply browse to the specified site without bringing up the SSL error page. Since the default driver for Firefox was switchedContinue readingUsing Selenium and webdriver to interact with insecure SSL pages in Firefox