Chrome Webdriver - System Policy has denied access to the requested URL-CodePudding

I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting this error message. I'm running the webdriver.Chrome() with selenium in a Windows environment.

When I run:

driver.get("http://www.google.com")

Or any url for that matter, python returns an HTML doc to the terminal saying;

Access denied, your system policy has denied access to the requested URL. For assistance contact your network support team

I'm not not sure what the issue so I need to figure out the error so I can send it to my IT. This is on a company managed device.

CodePudding user response：

Thanks to pcalkins I figured out it was a problem with the network drive. I ran the code in a python environment hosted on a network drive. When I changed it to run on my local machine it worked fine.

CodePudding user response：

While starting a Selenium driven ChromeDriver initiated google-chrome Browsing Context this error message...

Access denied, your system policy has denied access to the requested URL. For assistance contact your network support team

...can occur due to a lot of reasons.

Some of the known reasons are:

ChromeDriver uses port 9515 which may be blocked by some other services.
Your system have security software installed that is filtering this traffic or using network web filtering.