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I'm trying to figure out a solution to allow an website to know what URL the user is on through an iframe.
Website 1: http://website.website.com (Remote Website, can only add javascript & html to the webpage)
Website 2: https://example.com (Fully Editable, php, html, js.. etc)
Current Code: (Of Website 2 (Example.com)
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" prefix="og: http://ogp.me/ns# fb: http://ogp.me/ns/fb#">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
<title>Website.com</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body class="body_blank">
<script type="text/javascript">
jq = jQuery.noConflict();
jq(document).ready(function() {
var currentFramePath = '';
var iframe = '<iframe src="{src}" id="#iFrameContainer" style="position:fixed; top:0px; bottom:0px; right:0px; width: 100%; border: none; margin:0; padding:0; overflow: hidden; z-index:999999; height: 100%;">';
var urlFrame = getUrlParameter('currentFrame');
if(urlFrame != null && urlFrame != ''){
console.log("Frame not found");
jq('#iFrameContainer').html(iframe.replace('{src}', urlFrame));
currentFramePath = urlFrame;
}
jq('#iFrameContainer').click(function(){
console.log("Clicked in frame");
currentFramePath = jq(this).attr('href');
console.log(currentFramePath);
});
setInterval(function(){
window.location = window.location.href.split('?')[0] + '?currentFrame=' + currentFramePath;
console.log("Update Query");
}, 5000);
});
function getUrlParameter(sParam) {
var sPageURL = decodeURIComponent(window.location.search.substring(1)),
sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&'),
sParameterName,
i;
console.log("Get Query");
for (i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) {
sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');
if (sParameterName[0] === sParam) {
return sParameterName[1] === undefined ? true : sParameterName[1];
}
}
};
</script>
<div id="wrapper" class="wrapper_blank">
<iframe src="http://website.website.com" id="#iFrameContainer" style="position:fixed; top:0px; bottom:0px; right:0px; width: 100%; border: none; margin:0; padding:0; overflow: hidden; z-index:999999; height: 100%;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
If I refresh the page (iframe) on example.com it refreshes and forgets the page that the user is/was on...
As you can see I have attempted to get it working by detecting their page through an iFrame however this is impossible due to it being on a different domain.
I'm looking for some sort of solution to do something like described below, bare in mind there could be a better solution.
I want the website website.website.com to get the current path / url of the page the user is on (which is being viewed through an iframe) and for it to send this path/url through to example.com then example.com would update the session / temporary cookie / temporary local storage / variable... etc which would then mean it would adjust the query string to point itself to the correct URL for when the user refreshes their page resulting in the refresh correctly remembering the page they were on.
I tried to use the postMessage function by putting the follow code on their respective sites:
Website 1 Extra Code
<script type="text/javascript">
setInterval(function() {
parent.postMessage(window.location.pathname, "https://website.com");
},1000);
</script>
Website 2 Extra Code:
var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? "addEventListener" : "attachEvent";
var eventer = window[eventMethod];
var messageEvent = eventMethod == "attachEvent" ? "onmessage" : "message";
eventer(messageEvent, function(e) {
console.log('Parent Message: ', e.data);
}, false);
However nothing happens, no console messages or errors... just nothing.
I've even tried copying the likes of https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/cross-domain-messaging-with-postmessage but nothing in that helped :(
Any ideas what I am doing wrong and a way to resolve it to achieve this?
Thanks
I've tried the following js inside http://website.website.com but it didn't work:
localStorage.setItem('CurrentURLChecker', window.location.href)
if (localStorage.getItem('CurrentURLChecker')) {
if (window.parent.location.href == "https://website.com/" ) {
console.log("URL FOUND");
}
}
Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "http://website.website.com" from accessing a cross-origin frame at http://website.website.com/:251:44
Website 1 = "http://stackoverflow.serviceprovider.com"
Website 2 = "https://stackoverflow.com"
Website 2 contains an iframe which shows the exactly what Website 1 shows.
I am never going to visit Website 1, all clicks are done on Website 2
If I was to click on a link inside the iframe and it was to navigate to: http://stackoverflow.serviceprovider.com/this-new-page/ then Website 1 should be able to detect this and store the iframes location and remember it.
Now if I refresh my browser instead of the iframe loading http://stackoverflow.serviceprovider.com it would instead load the page they actually refreshed which is http://stackoverflow.serviceprovider.com/this-new-page/
The tab/window URL will always stay on https://stackoverflow.com/ but it would be a necessity to append a query string so the links can be made sharable.
It's that simple.
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Communicating directly between iframes is also possible by combining window. parent with target as defined above. In conclusion, the postMessage method is a more dynamic alternative to the single DOM, better suited if you load multiple pages in one iframe, but not always easier and it still requires the use of the DOM.
To get current URL from an iframe with JavaScript, we can use the contentWindow. location. href property. Then we get the current URL of the iframe with the contentWindow.
You can read the contents in an iframe easily via jQuery ( $(iframe). contents() ) if the domain of the webpage which contains the iframe is same as the domain of the web-page opened in iframe . The microservice responsible for uploading file was on different domain and the main app is on another domain.
When a page is running inside of an iframe, the parent object is different than the window object. You can still access parent from within an iframe even though you can't access anything useful on it. This code will never cause an error even when crossing origins.
For security reasons, you can only get the url for as long as the contents of the iframe, and the referencing javascript, are served from the same domain.
If the two domains are mismatched, you'll run into cross site reference scripting security restrictions.
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