Box Edit Custom Domains

In order to integrate a third party web application with Box Tools, you will need to explicitly add your application's URL. On Windows, this is achieved by adding a registry key. On MacOS, you will need to run few terminal commands to add and remove domains.

Safelisting on Windows

Before starting the domain safelisting installation, please download the required scripts from the provided .rar here.

Per User Installation

Open Add_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg in a text editor.

Close the file (save changes), open a command prompt with admin privileges, and navigate to the .reg file and type the following command.

reg import "Add_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg"

Per Machine Installation

Open the following file in a text editor:

• x64: Per Machine\64 bit\Add_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg
• x86: Per Machine\32 bit\Add_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg

Replace the placeholder domain with the domain you would like allow.

Close the file (save changes), open a  command prompt with admin privileges, and navigate the .reg file and type the following command:

reg import "Add_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg"

Restart the Windows service: Box Local Com Service (Box Edit.exe) using one of the following methods.

Via the command prompt

In a command prompt, enter:

• net stop "Box Local Com Service"
• net start "Box Local Com Service"

Via the UI

Press Windows + R and type services.msc.

Restart Box Edit.exe by finding Box Edit in the system tray.

Right click and select Quit.

Open %programfiles%\Box\Box Edit and run Box Edit.exe.

Removing

• Run Remove_ALL_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg to remove all domains at once
• Run Remove_OpenWith_WhiteListed_Domain.reg to remove specific domains. Use the instructions above to add domains to this .reg, which will remove domains.

Safelisting on MacOS

Steps

Download the bash script here.

Open the Terminal, go to the folder where the bash script was downloaded, and add the right permissions by running this command:

chmod u+rx OpenWith.sh

To add domains, run the following command in a terminal:

./OpenWith.sh -a domain1 domain2 ...

To remove domains, run the following command in a terminal:

./OpenWith.sh -r domain1 domain2 ...

To clear all domains, run the following command in a terminal:

./OpenWith.sh -c

To list all domains, run the following command in a terminal:

./OpenWith.sh -l

Notes

• When safelisting domains ensure you are entering the domains without the HTTP protocol (for example without https://) or any trailing path like yourdomain.com/page/3).
• All requests most come from a secure origin via HTTPS.
• Safelisting subdomains and ports is possible as the wildcard * is supported. For example, all subdomains could be safelisted by adding *.yourdomain.com to your list.

Uninstalling

When Box Tools is uninstalled, all domains will be removed.