Basic Authentication Pop-up in cypress

[yopemu]

Current behavior

I am currently writing a test that requires Basic Authentication. According to the documentation, it should be possible to handle the authentication if I include the auth object in the command or the credentials in the URL. Unfortunately this does not work and the pop-up is always displayed.

I have tried the following:

cy.visit('https://admin:[email protected]/basic_auth');

cy.visit('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth', { auth: { username: 'admin', password: 'admin' }, failOnStatusCode: false });

cy.visit('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth', { headers: { authorization: 'Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' }, failOnStatusCode: false });

None of these options worked and the browser always shows the pop-up or 401 - Unauthorized if “failOnStatusCode:false” is not set.

Desired behavior

With Cypress I should be able to handle basic authentication (as described in the documentation) so that I can log in to the website and test further functionality.

Test code to reproduce

cy.visit('https://admin:[email protected]/basic_auth');

cy.visit('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth', { auth: { username: 'admin', password: 'admin' }, failOnStatusCode: false });

cy.visit('https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/basic_auth', { headers: { authorization: 'Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=' }, failOnStatusCode: false });

Cypress Version

14.1.0

Node version

v22.11.0

Operating System

Windows 11 Enterprise, Edge v133

Debug Logs

Other

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