How to use the IE webdriver from selenium for python (Failed to navigate error)?

Question

I am trying to use the python-selenium API (version 2.53.6) to perform GUI tests on different browsers. When I try to use IE (11.0.10240) in the following way (Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, 64bit); using authentication:

driver = webdriver.Ie()
driver.get("http://user:[email protected]")

then I get the following error message:

selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Failed to navigate to http://user:[email protected]. This usually means that a call to the COM method IWebBrowser2::Navigate2() failed.

Is there a way to fix this error?

Addendum:

• I have been trying to use the 32bit version of the IE driver, no success (same error)
• I have changed the registry as explained here, no success (same error)
• I have set "Enable Protected Mode" for all zones (also suggested here).

Answer 1

Not directly answering the question, but I could not reproduce it when using IE11 on Windows 10 through BrowserStack and opening this http auth protected page:

from selenium import webdriver

desired_cap = {'os': 'Windows', 'os_version': '10', 'browser': 'IE', 'browser_version': '11.0'}

driver = webdriver.Remote(
    command_executor='http://usename:[email protected]:80/wd/hub',
    desired_capabilities=desired_cap)

driver.get("http://httpwatch:[email protected]/httpgallery/authentication/authenticatedimage/default.aspx?0.7349707232788205")

No errors and I see the image that is behind the HTTP auth.

Using selenium 2.53.5.