problem authenticating from link within hotmail

[pablo_100]

has anyone experienced a problem with authenticating from inside a hotmail email?

the problem is that they keep you in their frame and it is a pain to get out in one move.

somebody come back with a solution.😕

[PHPdev]

Have not seen this problem but you could always try setting a target="" for the link....

PHPdev

[Arc]

yah target="_Blank" will open a new window

[pablo_100]

yeah ...

the target="" answer is kind of obvious. unfortunately hotmail thought of it too.

if you set something like "target=top" hotmail rewrites it as "target=blank" which does nothing

if you try to use a javascript handler like
"a href=javascript:window.open('myurl')"
hotmail rewrites this as "a href=javascript:filtered()" and it does nothing.

i was hoping there was a header i could set in php like:
"Window-target: mytarget"
but there is no such header although it is mentioned on the netscape site.

funny enough this problem occurs even when logging into this forum from hotmail. try it and you will see

[igneramos]

I use the following javascript to break out of the frames...

<script language="javascript">
<!--
function breakFrames(){ 
if (self != top)
{
parent.top.location.href="[i]your URL here[/i]";
}}
-->
</script>

put that in the onLoad event of the page body, and that'll break you out of the frame. in my case, i use a static URL since the issue isn't so much authentication but because the hotmail proxy breaks some simple javascripts on the page, but you should be able to build the link dynamically by parsing out the HTTP_REFERER.

Hope this helps.