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I write 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 web driver?

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In a word, no, it's not possible using the Selenium WebDriver API. This has been discussed ad nauseum in the issue tracker for the project, and the feature will not be added to the API.

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Not sure this is what you're looking for, but I had a bit different goal is to check if remote image exists and I will not have 403 error, so you could use something like below:

public static boolean linkExists(String URLName){
    try {
      HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(false);
      HttpURLConnection con =
         (HttpURLConnection) new URL(URLName).openConnection();
      con.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
      return (con.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK);
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
       return false;
    }
  }
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Handy for simple cases, but you don't have any browser state using this method (e.g. user logins). – Roger Keays Sep 6 '12 at 5:40

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