Activex Control In Ie Intranet Zone - Blocked Without A Prompt?

I'm writing an intranet page for my company that requires the use of an embedded dll (COM). The dll is registered on all clients computers so it doesn't need to be downloaded from

Solution 1:

if you embed it with an <object> tag it should prompt you regardless; you could then make calls on it through the object tag. another trick which may work is to put: <!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet --> as the first line of your html file; I don't know if this will work on the intranet zone, but from localhost that will cause the page to be treated as though it were an internet page.

I have used FireBreath plugins (which act as activex controls and can be called in the way you describe) and have never had an issue like this. Good luck!