Basic authentication with Selenium in Internet Explorer 10

Question

One of our webapplications is using Basic Authentication and build with AngularJS. To test this application, I use Protractor, which uses Selenium to communicate with browse

Answer 1

My upgrade to Internet Explorer 10 was also an upgrade to a 64-bit Internet Explorer. And for some reason, 64-bit variants use another register key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/MAIN/FeatureControl/FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE

Setting a DWORD iexplore.exe with value 0 in this registry key fixes the issue.

The 64-bit variant is also very slow, and switching back to 32-bit is a good choice to fix this slowness. The 64-bit variant of IE is only used with the 64-bit variant of IEDriverServer.exe. Using IEDriverServer.exe 32-bit let you switch back to IE 32-bit.

To be complete, the register key for 32-bit is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/MAIN/FeatureControl/FEATURE_HTTP_USERNAME_PASSWORD_DISABLE