Topic awaiting preservation: Frame/IFrame cookie reading

I've tried to make IFrames read cookies properly, but they are simply not able to. To put it simply, here's what I've tried (IE latest), and an embedded iframe:
Set cookie in parent
Set cookie in iframe
Neither of these had an effect, the iframe did not read from them. Note, if I opened the iframe's contents in a new window, it read the cookies fine.
So then, when it is in an embedded iframe, where does it read cookies from?
My ultimate goal would be to have visitors of my site automatically logged in to the websites they give me info for that are displayed in my iframe. That is, pages load in the iframe, and I set the cookies so they don't have to log in to say 100 different sites, just give me the info and log in to me. Then they can navigate through my iframes, and be logged in everywhere immediately.

~See my name? Understand? That's why.

I'm a little unclear on the concept here but the issue here sounds like you are trying to read cookies between different domains. If you have a page in an iframe set a cookie, only the pages within the domain that set the cookie can read them.

So you can't set cookies for other domains



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

I wish it were so... but they don't. Try to open a page, like a forum, in an IFrame, and try to log in. The cookie is set, and if you open the link in a new window, it works, but in the iframe, it can't read from its own cookie. So where/what does it read from actually?

How are you setting the cookie, with javascript or server side code?

Also, if you want the cookie to be read across the entire domain, set the path to "/".

Although, I'm curious, why would you need to set cookies in a specific frame. Like bitdamaged said, just set the cookie for the domain and you can read it from any page in that domain. If you have issues reading a cookie from a frame try reading it (and setting it) from the top most level frame (the parent of all the other frames) and you shouldn't have any issues.

Now we are getting crazy....
It works in an old IE version I have with no firewall, but it doesn't in a newer IE version with a firewall. No idea. But I'll tell you if there is anything new.

By the by, this DOM browser is one of the most valuabe things I have come across. I suggest you download it and use as a bookmarklet in IE. http://www.twinhelix.com/test/jsobj.zip

Bai bai,
Hub-izer

In case you are interested, btw, this is my site:
http://www.rwcenter.co.nr/

Click on the little button, and resize if you want. Enjoy!

Don't have a solution for ya, just wanted to say thanx for the link to the DOM-browser!
I've set it up as a scriptlet and its... well impressive and definatley useful!
Thanx!
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

Yep, that's how I figured out how to finish my site. http://www.rwcenter.co.nr/

Now, I have a question about that. I finished it not 10 minutes ago, and I have a little problem. Surf to it, then click 'warbands' in the cetner frame. Then, click the little minimize button. Then click the button again. The content in the main frame disappears, and is replaced by the default content. Is there any way to change that? There is a hack that would work, that would save the new url every time the user reclicks the site, and set that as the new default. But that would require refreshing each page twice, and, if the pages are dynamic (as I expect them to be), it would ruin them too. So, put simply, is there a way to avoid the pages being refreshed when you click the button twice?

The other question I had was about the nav links. When I click a link, it opens it in a new window, even though I use target="top.opener.window.document.mainf" or something similar. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Hub-izer

Hm,

I see you've tackled the first problem.

But
target="top.opener.window.document.mainf"
sounds to me like a combination of HTML and Javascript.
My guess is that browsers don't understand, and thus ignore your target-property.
You should fill in the name of the frame:
target="contentFrame" for example.

And ouch, are you gonna fix those colors and images? They're hurting my eyes .

So are there any ideas for:
1. Not making the inner page refresh when restoring it.
2. Making it work or crash gracefully in other/older browsers than IE 5.
3. Getting the current location of an iframe if it is not on my domain.

Any suggestions? Please?
Hub-izer


PS I found a rather simple method for automagickally logging in people to sites, just make an identical form with PHP with the submit value "1", and do something like body onload="document.formname.submit()". And maybe printing "Logging you in"
In fact http://www.rwcenter.co.nr/logintoduel.html
is a working model of that, but with the password deliberately set to a garbage value. Don't want you guys becoming admins on my game.... :P