Here is my setup for using self signed certs and allowing the PhantomJsDriver to use Phantomjs and hit https pages while using self signed certificates.
Read Tomás Lin’s excellent post on setting up Geb with Phantomjs.
http://fbflex.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/how-to-configure-webdriver-in-grails-for-your-geb-tests/
The phantomjsdriver will producde a log file phantomjsdriver.log when creating the instance of phantomjs.
Negotiated Capabilities: {“browserName”:”phantomjs”,”version”:”1.9.1″,”driverName”:”ghostdriver”,”driverVersion”:”1.0.3″,”platform”:”mac-10.8 (Mountain Lion)-32bit”,”javascriptEnabled”:true,”takesScreenshot”:true,”handlesAlerts”:false,”databaseEnabled”:false,”locationContextEnabled”:false,”applicationCacheEnabled”:false,”browserConnectionEnabled”:false,”cssSelectorsEnabled”:true,”webStorageEnabled”:false,”rotatable”:false,“acceptSslCerts”:false,”nativeEvents”:true,”proxy”:{“proxyType”:”direct”}}
AcceptSslCerts is shown as false in the log, but the below code will use command line arguments to force phantomjs to accept any certificate. The value we are most interested in is –ignore-ssl-errors=true
Thoughts on code 