Need Help ASAP- Iframe Not Loading

micky007

Hi Guys,

I have a problem i am willing to pay someone to fix ASAP.

http://www.vworker.com/RentACoder/misc/BidRequests/ShowBidRequest.asp?lngBidRequestId=1757958

I've created a tracking platform where people place tracking pixels on there site to track leads/sales. Now inside the lead.php script at the bottom its supposed to load the iframe up but for some reason it doesn't load it.

People place their tracking pixels on their site like the following:

<img src="https://www.xxxxxxxxx.com/track/lead.php?p=22&adid=transactionid" width="0" height="0" border="0" />

It doesnt how ever load the iframe up. How ever if i went to the browser and went straight to:

https://www.xxxxxxxx.com/track/lead.php?p=22&adid=transactionidhere

Then it works fine and the iframe loads fine. I need this fixed asap and before you say its not because people are loading a php page in an image tag, iv tried doing it via iframe but the same thing happens.

I need this fixed ASAP!

Thanks

jorgepinho

What content-type does the "lead.php" returns? it has to be image/jpg or some other image mime type

johanafm

jorgepinho;10989238 wrote:
What content-type does the "lead.php" returns? it has to be image/jpg or some other image mime type

Only for the browser to accept the returned contents and display it. Displaying it also requires the returned data to actually be an image. If it isn't, some browsers simply disregard it alltogether, while others such as Safari, will display a "broken image" image.

However, the browser will still request the resource, since it can't know what content-type will be returned until it is returned.

However, as far as images go, browsers will cache them, which means that you need to add something like

$unique_value_per_request_and_user = '&amp;t='.time();

which would have the browser send a get request for this image every time the page is loaded, unless two page loads from the same browser are done within the same second.

I've no idea how iframes are treated, but I'd guess it depends on what http headers are set (by you or the web server) that concerns caching.

micky007

Hi Guys,

After more testing its because I'm loading the tracking pixel as an image. If i load it as an iframe then it works fine.

Now my problem is i can not get one of my clients to change it from img to iframe. So how do i get this to work with it loading from an image tag?

Any help would be great please.

Thanks

micky007

or is there a way in PHP i can load a URL (client side) NOT server side?

bradgrafelman

micky007;10989240 wrote:
After more testing its because I'm loading the tracking pixel as an image. If i load it as an iframe then it works fine.

That sounds suspicious to me. Either method will cause the browser to generate a request for the "tracking" page, so both should work equally as well.

micky007;10989240 wrote:
So how do i get this to work with it loading from an image tag?

Same way you would with any other method. If the browser is making the request for the image, then the problem must lie with your PHP script. Have you at least verified that using the image method will cause the browser to request the tracking page?

As johanafm mentioned, images are prime suspects for browser caching, so you'll probably want your tracking script to output the appropriate HTTP headers to tell the browser never to cache that resource.

micky007;10989243 wrote:
or is there a way in PHP i can load a URL (client side) NOT server side?

Considering that PHP is a server-side language, no, you can't do <insert any client-side behavior/action here> using PHP.