Workaround for broken 'safariIgnoreFraudWarning' Capability on XCODE Simulator via Appium

The Problem
While executing a Selenium test on an XCode simulator using Appium, you encounter the following screen:



To proceed beyond this point, you need to manually click 'Ignore this Warning'. Not good; defeats the purpose of automating your test.

This despite having explicitly instructed the Simulator to suppress the warning in the Desired Capabilites:

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self.DC = { 'platformName' : 'iOS', 'platformVersion' : '8.0', 'deviceName' : 'iPhone 4s', 'browserName' : 'Safari', 'safariIgnoreFraudWarning' : 'True', 'deviceOrientation': 'portrait' } self.appium_simulator = webdriver.Remote(command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub', desired_capabilities=self.DC)

The Solution
The "Possible Phishing Site" is a regular HTM page and therefore can be interacted with in the normal fashion. You just need to click that 'Ignore this Warning' button...

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def possible_phishing_site(self): URL = "https://username:password@testurl.tld" self.appium_simulator.get(URL) time.sleep(5) #'Possible Phising Site' message... try: ITW = self.appium_simulator.find_element_by_css_selector("button#ignore_this_warning") if ITW: print "We are on the 'Possible Phising Page' in Safari" time.sleep(1) ITW.click() print "'Ignore this Warning' button clicked" time.sleep(5) except Exception as e: print "Exception:", str(e) print "'Possible Phising Page' not reachable via Selenium"

Job done.