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It seems like the point of window.postMessage is to allow safe communication between windows/frames hosted on different domains, but it doesn't actually seem to allow that in Chrome.
Here's the scenario:
src on domain B*) in a page on domain A The <iframe> is most definitely in the context of domain B, and I've confirmed that the embedded javascript in that <iframe> executes properly and calls postMessage with the correct values.
I get this error message in Chrome:
Unable to post message to A. Recipient has origin B.
Here's the code that registers a message event listener in the page on A:
window.addEventListener(
"message",
function (event) {
// Do something
},
false);
I've also tried calling window.postMessage(some_data, '*'), but all that does is suppress the error.
Am I just missing the point here, is window.postMessage(...) not meant for this? Or am I just doing it horribly wrong?
*Mime-type text/html, which it must remain.
748
PostMessage() is a global method that safely enables cross-origin communication. It's a lot like Ajax but with cross-domain capability. We'll give it a whirl by setting up two-way communication between a web page and an iframe whose content resides on another server.
The window. postMessage() method safely enables cross-origin communication between Window objects; e.g., between a page and a pop-up that it spawned, or between a page and an iframe embedded within it.
The “Same Origin” (same site) policy limits access of windows and frames to each other. The idea is that if a user has two pages open: one from john-smith.com , and another one is gmail.com , then they wouldn't want a script from john-smith.com to read our mail from gmail.com .
Here is an example that works on Chrome 5.0.375.125.
The page B (iframe content):
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<script>
top.postMessage('hello', 'A');
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note the use of top.postMessage or parent.postMessage not window.postMessage here
The page A:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<iframe src="B"></iframe>
<script>
window.addEventListener( "message",
function (e) {
if(e.origin !== 'B'){ return; }
alert(e.data);
},
false);
</script>
</body>
</html>
A and B must be something like http://domain.example
From another question, it looks the domains(A and B here) must have a / for the postMessage to work properly.
122
You should post a message from frame to parent, after loaded.
frame script:
$(document).ready(function() {
window.parent.postMessage("I'm loaded", "*");
});
And listen it in parent:
function listenMessage(msg) {
alert(msg);
}
if (window.addEventListener) {
window.addEventListener("message", listenMessage, false);
} else {
window.attachEvent("onmessage", listenMessage);
}
Use this link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Messaging
28
Probably you try to send your data from mydomain.example to www.mydomain.example or reverse, NOTE you missed "www". http://mydomain.example and http://www.mydomain.example are different domains to JavaScript.
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