Why is Playwright not able to handle SSL certificates or secure connections?

Playwright is a test automation framework designed to interact with web applications similarly to real users, including the ability to handle SSL certificates or secure connections. However, it does not deal with SSL certificates and secure connections directly.

You can use these steps to handle SSL certificates or secure connection in Playwright:

• To ignore the SSL certificates error, you can use codegen with a custom setup in Playwright. Call “page.pause()” to open separate windows with codegen control when you run the test. Use this code to ignore the SSL error:

browser.newContext({ /* pass any options */ ignoreHTTPSErrors: true });');

• Chromium browsers use NSSDB for certificates rather than OS store. So install Certutil.exe, a command line program used for certification services. And then add

certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "C,," -n root.implodingduck.local -i /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/extra/root.implodingduck.local.crt');

After Playwright Chromium runs, it can use a trusted root CA certificate store.

• You can use the “setHTTPCredentials” method of the “BrowserContext” object in Playwright. It will allow you to specify a client certificate for authentication. Learn in detail about browserContext method in our Playwright tutorial.