Selenium with IE driver and enable protected mode in internet option

[anita]

Hi,
I work in a web application that works just in Internet explorer. I was working in my windows 7 machine which had the enable protected mode option enabled for all zones. But recently I have received my windows 10 machine, in which my organization has disabled the enable protected mode option for 2 zones. So, I have requested to enable for all the zones as its a prerequisite. But they want to know on why is this set as a prerequisite in order to enable it. Can someone help me answer this question?

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Hi Anita,

It needs to enable or disable all zones.

As 2 options are disabled please do disable others. If all protected modes are disabled Selenium WD would work with IE.

br,

Ripon

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:50 AM, anita <anita...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I work in a web application that works just in Internet explorer. I was working in my windows 7 machine which had the enable protected mode option enabled for all zones. But recently I have received my windows 10 machine, in which my organization has disabled the enable protected mode option for 2 zones. So, I have requested to enable for all the zones as its a prerequisite. But they want to know on why is this set as a prerequisite in order to enable it. Can someone help me answer this question?

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[anita]

Hi Ripon, 

Yes I Understand it needs to be either enabled or disabled for all zones. But unfortunately, I don't have the permission to do it in my office laptop. 

And the security team in our organisation would like to know the reason on why it needs to be done, in order to proceed with my request.

On Monday, May 7, 2018 at 8:07:47 AM UTC+2, Ripon Al Wasim wrote:

Hi Anita,

It needs to enable or disable all zones.

As 2 options are disabled please do disable others. If all protected modes are disabled Selenium WD would work with IE.

br,

Ripon

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 11:50 AM, anita <anita...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I work in a web application that works just in Internet explorer. I was working in my windows 7 machine which had the enable protected mode option enabled for all zones. But recently I have received my windows 10 machine, in which my organization has disabled the enable protected mode option for 2 zones. So, I have requested to enable for all the zones as its a prerequisite. But they want to know on why is this set as a prerequisite in order to enable it. Can someone help me answer this question?

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[Jim Evans]

For the full technical explanation of why this setting is required, please see the blog post at http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2012/08/youre-doing-it-wrong-protected-mode-and.html

[Ripon Al Wasim]

Thanks  Jim Evans for sharing a nice article.

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:32 PM, Jim Evans <james.h....@gmail.com> wrote:

For the full technical explanation of why this setting is required, please see the blog post at http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2012/08/youre-doing-it-wrong-protected-mode-and.html

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[anita]

Thanks Jim Evans. This is the exact information that I expected.