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HTTP auth in Internet explorer

Jakub Raczek edited this page Apr 23, 2020 · 1 revision

To enabled HTTP auth in Internet explorer e.g. http://USER:PASSWORD@server

From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5672407/how-to-perform-basic-authentication-for-firefoxdriver-chromedriver-and-iedriver

If you want to enable the http auth in Internet explorer, you have to edit the registry and add this (create keys if they are not present):

  1. in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE, create a DWORD iexplore.exe with a value of 0
  2. in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE, create a DWORD iexplore.exe with a value of 0
  3. Close and reopen Internet explorer If you have a x64 IE, the path is a bit different : • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

It is fixing error in Internet Browser 11: "This usually means that a call to the COM method IWebBrowser2::Navigate2() failed"

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