How to add URL to the trusted zone in Internet Explorer?

Question

How can I add an URL to the trusted site? It seems that there are stored in the registry, but where exactly?
The hints I\'ve googled so far weren\'t helpfull.

Th

Answer 1

Check this solution at CodeGuru forums.

In summary, this code uses the COM library, a library which you did say you wished to avoid. However, there is no workaround this situation. Another thing to mention is that this code is written in C++, as the guy who wrote it, CorithMartin, ported it from C#.

#include "windows.h"
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "urlmon.h"
#using <mscorlib.dll>
#include <atldef.h>
#include <atlconv.h>
using namespace System;
using namespace System::Runtime::InteropServices;
#define MAX_LOADSTRING 100

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    // constants from urlmon.h
    const int URLZONE_LOCAL_MACHINE = 0;
    const int URLZONE_INTRANET = URLZONE_LOCAL_MACHINE + 1;
    const int URLZONE_TRUSTED = URLZONE_INTRANET + 1;
    const int URLZONE_INTERNET = URLZONE_TRUSTED + 1;
    const int URLZONE_UNTRUSTED = URLZONE_INTERNET + 1;
    const int URLZONE_ESC_FLAG = 0x100;
    const int SZM_CREATE  = 0;
    const int SZM_DELETE  = 0x1;

    HRESULT hr;
    IInternetSecurityManager *pSecurityMgr;
    LPCWSTR sites = SysAllocString(L"http://*.mydomain.com");

    CoInitialize(NULL);

    hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_InternetSecurityManager, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IInternetSecurityManager, (void**)&pSecurityMgr);

    pSecurityMgr->SetZoneMapping(URLZONE_TRUSTED, sites, SZM_CREATE);

    pSecurityMgr->Release();

    return 0;
}

Answer 2

To add a new trusted zone it creates zone registry keys and folders on the path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains for each domain it creates a new key with domain name ( sample.com) a new key under this one with the subdomain (www) and under this one a new REG_DWORD with name of the scheme (http or https) value 2 on hexadecimal and that is it,you got it done

Answer 3

Powershell

#Setting IExplorer settings
Write-Verbose "Now configuring IE"
#Add http://website.com as a trusted Site/Domain
#Navigate to the domains folder in the registry
set-location "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings"
set-location ZoneMap\Domains

#Create a new folder with the website name
new-item website/ -Force
set-location website/
new-itemproperty . -Name * -Value 2 -Type DWORD -Force
new-itemproperty . -Name http -Value 2 -Type DWORD -Force
new-itemproperty . -Name https -Value 2 -Type DWORD -Force

Answer 4

Here's a way to simplify the process.

1. Create a .exe to ask for the domain (a textbox), specify the providers (as checkboxes: All, http, https, ftp) click "Add Site to Trusted Sites" to then do the following:
2. Create a temp folder on C: as "C:\TempTS\"
3. Create a .bat file ("C:\TempTS\AddTrustedSites.bat") similar to this:

set regFile="C:\TempTS\AddTrustedSiteTS.reg"

ECHO Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > %regFile%

ECHO [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\MySecureDomain.com\www] >> %regFile

ECHO "https"=dword:00000002 >> %regFile%

regedit /s %regFile%

DEL %regFile%

The ECHO [HKEY_CURRENT_USER... and ECHO "https"... lines can be repeated for each provider checked. For the "ALL" provider, use an asterisk in place of "https", like such:

ECHO [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains\MySecureDomain.com\www] >> %regFile% ECHO "*"=dword:00000002 >> %regFile%

Run the .bat file using this call:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("C:\TempTS\AddTrustedSites.bat")

After the .bat file is ran (takes mere microseconds), delete both the bat file and tempTS directory.

MacSpudster

(a.k.a. GNoter, TechStuffBC)

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Credit where credit is due:

regedit /s AddTrustedSite.reg

the "/s" will supress confirm dialog boxes

http://www.computerhope.com/registry.html

also:

see http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/bat-file-to-add-trusted-site-in-ie/139995.html

Answer 5

MSDN

Adding Sites Programmatically

C#

Answer 6

The following should give you the way to do it in code...

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/01/26/361228.aspx