[RESOLVED] cross-browser Iframes?

[Chris_96_WS6]

Hi,

I manage two websites for my employer. One is a secure server we use for LDAP authenticated web applications.

So, I have a homepage such as http://www.example.com, and then a secure analog at https://www4.example.com

I have data in a MySQL DB that I am requried to connect to securely only from the secure server www4.

My problem is I need to display a snipped of data (a handful of dates/calendar items) on the http://www.example.com homepage, without the ability to go in and get the data directly out of the DB.

I wrote a php page that sits on the secure site and pulls the data. Then I am using an iframe on the homepage to display this widget. Works perfectly in Firefox. But I cannot get the iframe to display in IE6. It will display the iframe if the page is local, but then I can't get the db data I need.

Is there a way around this for cross-domain iframes in IE?

[JPnyc]

I wasn't aware of any issues like that with iframes and IE, since iframes are a MS innovation. I get the same results in FF and IE when I click any of those links.

You could try doing a rewrite of the url with scripting. I've never done it but I have been told it can solve cross-domain issues.

[Chris_96_WS6]

The links are just examples, not my actual project.

Can you refer me to anything on scripting the links? They're rendered using PHP already.

Do you think calling the iframe with javascript might resolve the issue?

I guess the other way to do it would be to output the data via XML, then add an XML parser to the php homepage to display the data, but that seems excessively complicated for this implementation.

[Chris_96_WS6]

Found something that works perfectly:

The buffering example found here: http://www.dyn-web.com/dhtml/iframes/

[JPnyc]

Yeah, that's what I meant 😃.