Retrieving url from other frame/window

emrys404

Hello,
I'm having trouble figuring out how to solve this problem. Namely i want to retrieve a url from another frame/window. The idea is to open a frame/window for a user (to another domain) then allow the user to click around (usually pretty linearly) and when they close the window/frame or click a button or something, my site will know what page theywere browsing when they closed the window/frame/clicked the button.

I will know of course which page they started at and the url sequence (which will be pretty predictable and linear) they will be viewing, i just dont know where they will stop....
Anyway the solutions i tried so far have all been thwarted by cross-frame security and access denied errors...
As this is more a client side thing i am guessing less php and more java, but does anyone have any ideas or could point me in the right direction?

Thanks for any and all help....
-emrys

mtimdog

You could create a custom function for closing the target frame.

Inside the function, store the frame's url using either

var url=top.targetframename.document.location;

var url=top.targetframename.location.href;

Then do the close

Note:
When there is a server redirect, document.location contains the URL as loaded, and location.href contains the URL as originally requested.

Oreilly is a great place for tidbits.

emrys404

Okay here is what i tried so far:

function get_close()
{
var blar = parent.top.location;
alert(blar);
}

//-->
</script>

</head>
<body>

<a href="" onClick="get_close();">Getandclose</a><br>

</body>
</html>

Okay for this set up i have two frames. this code resides in th etop frame called top and the target is in the frame called bottom.. i just did this to see if i could get it to return the url... it works fine when the parent.top.location, but wont do anything when its parent.bottom.location. i tried both your examples and couldnt get them to return anything.... am idoing it wrong or is this happending because of some security thing?

please any help is appreciated. thanks
-emrys

mtimdog

cross-frame security is a biyyotch
unless you have access to manipulate the site you're going to...it looks like Internet Exploder won't let you w/ JS.