Python protection settings IE

Question

I am facing a problem automating the protection settings in IE using Selenium with python.

I found a solution to automate the settings in java but it is not working when i changed it to python .

I tried the following::

from selenium import webdriver

caps=webdriver.DesiredCapabilites.INTERNETEXPLORER
caps['INTRODUCE_FLAKINESS_BY_IGNORING_SECURITY_DOMAINS']=True
driver=webdriver.Ie(caps)

This gave an error with respect to the argument given .

and when I used driver = webdriver.Ie() It says protection mode settings must be same for all zones.

Can anyone help me automate this thing using selenium in python.

Answer 1

Desired capabilities doesn't work in some instances. Here is a method to change protection settings from the registry using winreg.

from winreg import *

    def Enable_Protected_Mode():
        # SECURITY ZONES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
        # 0 is the Local Machine zone
        # 1 is the Intranet zone
        # 2 is the Trusted Sites zone
        # 3 is the Internet zone
        # 4 is the Restricted Sites zone
        # CHANGING THE SUBKEY VALUE "2500" TO DWORD 0 ENABLES PROTECTED MODE FOR THAT ZONE.
        # IN THE CODE BELOW THAT VALUE IS WITHIN THE "SetValueEx" FUNCTION AT THE END AFTER "REG_DWORD".
        #os.system("taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe")
        try:
            keyVal = r'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\1'
            key = OpenKey(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, keyVal, 0, KEY_ALL_ACCESS)
            SetValueEx(key, "2500", 0, REG_DWORD, 0)
            print("enabled protected mode")
        except Exception:
            print("failed to enable protected mode")

Answer 2

According to documentation, in python-selenum, you should use setting called ignoreProtectedModeSettings:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

caps = DesiredCapabilities.INTERNETEXPLORER
caps['ignoreProtectedModeSettings'] = True

driver = webdriver.Ie(capabilities=caps)