Selenium Network Tab Data Missing When Using HasAuthentication for Windows Security Prompts
A QA engineer testing a staging site behind a Windows security popup finds that enabling Selenium's HasAuthentication handling removes request details like remote address, cookies, and content length from the browser network tab, and causes file upload requests to fail with a broken transport connection. Manually dismissing the popup instead preserves normal network visibility, leaving the interaction between automated authentication handling and browser instrumentation unclear.
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