hide iframe url in HTML source code - iframe

How to hide iframe url From HTML source code?
<iframe src="http://mysite.com" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90"></iframe>

You can use javascript to load the source, and it will not be visible in iframe url in page source code.
For example with jQuery:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(e) {
$('iframe').attr('src','http://www.flickr.com/');
});
</script>
<body>
<iframe src="" />
</body>
Example here.
You can combine it with $.post to get the value serverside:
$.post('get-iframe-src.php', function(data) {
$('iframe').attr('src',data);
});
You can even load iframe itself to some element like:
$.post('get-iframe.php', function(data) {
$('#element_id').html(data);
});
etc. solutions are many, this is just one of.

You can't. If the URL isn't in the HTML, how would the browser know where to get it?
One thing you could try is to obscure it to make it slightly harder for someone to find it. You could have the src attribute be blank and then when the document is ready fetch the URL value from the server in a separate AJAX request and update the iframe tag to include that value in the src.
This would be a fair amount of work, however, and wouldn't really accomplish anything. The only thing it would prevent is somebody finding it by viewing the page source. They can still look at the "current version" of the HTML in any web browser's debugging tools. (Right click on an element and inspect it, which is nearly ubiquitous at this point.) Or any other normal traffic-sniffing tools will see it plain as day.
Ultimately, if the web browser needs to know a piece of information, then that information needs to be visible on the client-side.

There's no way to fully block source viewing. But there are a couple ways to disable right-clicking:
1) Javascript:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var message="Your message goes here.";
function click(e) {
if (document.all) {
if (event.button == 2) {
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
if (document.layers) {
if (e.which == 3) {
alert(message);
return false;
}
}
}
if (document.layers) {
document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
}
document.onmousedown=click;
// -->
2) Add the following into your tag: oncontextmenu="return false"
reference https://forum.powweb.com/archive/index.php/t-36161.html

I decided for solution that does not use javascript, because most of the time it will be possible to read the "hidden" content.
Moreover, changing iframe SRC with javascript, will keep URL hidden when checking the source. However, inspecting the code will show the real URL.
My code is in PHP; however, I believe that the logic can be translated to other programming languages. This is how it works:
I kept the iframe tag as usual:
<iframe src="dash_url.php"></iframe>
The trick is inside the iframe_url.php, where I validate the referer. If it is valid, page is redirected to iframe URL. If it is not, than URL will be a message.
<?
$iframe_url = "https://example.com";
$Referer = #$_SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"];
$RefererHost = #explode(":", explode("/", explode("//", $Referer)[1])[0])[0];
if ($RefererHost == $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"]) {
header("Location: " . $iframe_url);
} else {
echo "Invalid URL";
}
?>
If visitor inspects the page or checks the source, iframe tag will show SRC as dash_url.php.

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parsing html and following a javascript link

I have been asked to extract info by an academic colleague from a website where I need to link the content of a webpage in a table - not too hard with the contents of a text file which is only reacheable (as far as I can tell) by clicking on a javascript link... e.g.
<a id="tk1" href="javascript:__doPostBack('tk1$ContentPlaceHolder1$grid$tk$OpenFileButton','')">
The table is conveniently inside a table with id='tk1' which is nice... but how do I follow the link which pulls the text file.
Ideally I'd like to do this in R... I can grab the relevant table in text format by saying
u <- the url of interest...
library(XML)
tables = readHTMLTable(u)
interestingTable <- tables[grep('tk1', names(tables))]
And this will give the text in the table, but how do I grab the html for that particular table? and how do I "click" on the button and get the text file behind it?
I note that there is a form with massive hidden values - the site appears to be asp.net driven and uses impenetrable URLs.
Many thanks!
This is somewhat tricky, and not fully integrated in R, but some system()-fiddling will get you started.
Download and install phantom javascript: http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/
Check the short script on http://menne-biomed.de/uni/JavaButton.html, which emulates your case. When you click the javascript anchor, it redirects http://cran.at.r-project.org/ via doPostBack(inaccessibleJavascriptVar).
Save the following script locally as javabutton.js
var page = new WebPage();
page.open('http://www.menne-biomed.de/uni/JavaButton.html', function (status) {
if (status !== 'success') {
console.log('Unable to access network');
} else {
var ua = page.evaluate(function () {
var t = document.getElementById('tk1').href;
var re = new RegExp('\((.*)\)');
return eval(re.exec(t)[1]);
});
console.log(ua);// Outputs http://cran.at.r-project.org/
}
phantom.exit();
});
With phantomjs on path, call
phantomjs javabutton.js
The link will be displayed on the console. Use any method to get it into Rcurl.
Not elegant, but maybe someones wraps phantomjs into R one day. In case the link to JaveButton.html should be lost, here it is as code.
<!DOCTYPE html >
<head>
<script>
inaccesibleJavascriptVar = 'http://' + 'cran.at.r-project.org/';
function doPostBack(myref)
{
window.location.href= myref;
return false;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a id="tk1" href="javascript:doPostBack(inaccesibleJavascriptVar)" >Click here</a>
</body>
</html>
Have a look at the RCurl package:
http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/

Image load timeout in Internet Explorer

I have a page for an internal app that displays document images streamed from a document storage system using a web service. The problem I am having is that when a user does their search they may get hundreds of hits, which I have to display on one large page so they can print them all. This works fine in Firefox, but in IE it stops loading the images after a while so I get a hundred or so displayed and the rest just have the broken image symbol. Is there a setting somewhere that I can change this timeout?
If the issue is indeed a timeout, you might be able to work around it by using a "lazy load" script and adding new images to the document only after existing images have loaded.
There are a lot of ways to do this, but here's a simple example I threw together and tested. Instead of this:
<img src="image001.jpg" />
<img src="image002.jpg" />
<img src="image003.jpg" />
<img src="image004.jpg" />
<!-- Etc etc etc -->
You could do this:
<div id="imgsGoHere">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function crossBrowserEventAttach(objectRef, eventName, functionRef)
{
try {
objectRef.addEventListener(eventName, functionRef, false);
}
catch(err) {
try {
objectRef.attachEvent("on" + eventName, functionRef);
}
catch(err2) {
// event attachment failed
}
}
}
function addImageToPage()
{
var newImageElement = document.createElement("img");
newImageElement.src = imageArray[nextImageNumber];
var targetElement = document.getElementById("imgsGoHere");
targetElement.appendChild(newImageElement);
nextImageNumber++;
if (nextImageNumber < imageArray.length) {
crossBrowserEventAttach(newImageElement, "load", addImageToPage);
crossBrowserEventAttach(newImageElement, "error", addImageToPage);
}
}
var nextImageNumber = 0;
var imageArray = new Array();
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image001.jpg";
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image002.jpg";
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image003.jpg";
// .
// .
// .
// Snip hundreds of rows
// .
// .
// .
imageArray[imageArray.length] = "image999.jpg";
addImageToPage();
</script>
Each image is added to the page only after the previous image loads (or fails to load). If your browser is timing out, I think that will fix it.
Of course, the problem might actually not be a timeout, but rather that you're running out of memory/system resources and IE is giving up. Or there might be an IE DOM limitation like Sra said.
No final solution, but some hints...
I think the ie Dom hangs up. I,ve seen this in other cases. I needed simply to show the images and used a js which loads the image the time they came into focus, but that want work if you directly hit print I think. Can you use the new css ability to store imagedata directly instead of links. That should solve your problem. I am not quite sure but I think it is supported since ie 7
My guess is that you have to work around the IE setting, the easiest way to do it is simply not showing images that are not loaded or replacing them with a default image:
your html:
<img src="http://domain.com/image.jpg" />
your js:
$('img').load(function(){
// ... loaded
}).error(function(){
// ... not loaded, replace
$(this).attr('src','/whatever/default.jpg');
// ... not loaded, hide
$(this).hide();
});
That is a problem with microsoft. Unfortunately, this is a setting that would have to be changed on every single computer, as there is no remote way to alter it. To change it on your computer, try opening regedit and adding the RecieveTimeout DWORD with a Value of (#of minutes)*6000. Hope this helps-CodeKid1001
Edit: Sorry about that, I forgot to put in the file path:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\InternetSettings
I used something similar to laod HD pictures as a background using ASP Pages
But i used jQuery to handle the images and its loading. This is a sample for 1 image but with a bit of tweaking you can load dynamically
myImage = new Image();
$(myImage).load(function ()
{
$(this).hide(); //Stops the loading effect of large images. can be removed
$('.csBackground li').append(this); //Append image to where you need it
$(myImage).show();
}).attr('src', settings.images[0]) //I pass an array from ASP code behind so 0 can be 'i'
.error( function { checkImages(); } ) //try and relaod the image or something?
So instead of changing the timeout- just try and reload the images on error.
Otherwise i only found a solution that is client specific (HTTP Timeout)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813827

Load an iframe asynchronously

I have a webpage with an <iframe> pointing to another website. I don't want this to block the loading of the rest of the page. Is there a way to load it asyncrounously?
It shouldn't block. If you want the main page to fully load first (eg, main page's images before iframe content) then you'll have to use a bit of javascript to set the url of the iframe, like <body onload="javascript:...">
Using jQuery, this works:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(window).load(function() {
var f = document.createElement('iframe');
f.src = url;
f.width = 1000;
f.height = 500;
$('body').append(f);
});
</script>
where url is some URL.
One problem we had was that while iframes already do load asynchronously, the main page will not fire OnLoad until the iframe has finished loading too.
We worked around this by 'faking' OnLoad by calling the method we wanted in a script element at the bottom of the main page, even outside the closing body tag:
</body>
<script type='text/jscript' language='javascript'>
BodyOnready();
</script>
I think #Coxy is correct that the OnLoad won't fire. At least when running some web page performance tests it seemed to me it is waiting for the iframe to consider the page to be fully loaded. I therefore use this small jQuery snippet to load the iframe:
HTML:
<iframe id="blabla"></iframe>
JS:
$(window).load(function() {
if ($('#blabla').length <= 0) { return; } // to avoid errors in case the element doesn't exist on the page / removed.
$('#blabla').attr('src','//example.com/page');
});
iframes should load asynchronously without any effort on your part.
you can wait until after 'onload' has fired to set the iframe's src:
<body onload="loadFrame">
then something like this:
function loadFrame(){
var myFrame = document.getElementById('myFrame');
myFrame.src = "myURL";
};
Some vanilla JS alternative:
HTML:
<iframe id="YOURID" src="about:blank">Loading...</iframe>
JS:
window.onload = function(){
document.getElementById('YOURID').src = 'https://insertYourUrlHere.com'
};
Although I agree this shouldn't be happening, you could wait for your webpage to be completely loaded, and then load the iframe contents. With jQuery, I think you can do something like this:
Supposing your IFRAME looks like: <iframe name="theOtherPage"></iframe>
$(document).ready(function(){
(window.frames || document.frames)["theOtherPage"].window.location = "http://theotherpage.com/";
});

How to Force the page to be loaded only within an IFrame?

I have a set of asp.net pages which I wish they should only be accessible or loaded when they are loaded from an IFrame. If an attempt is made to access the pages directly via browser address bar then the page should not be displayed at all or display the message to the user.
I tried using cookies and sesions, but they are not that effective becuase once the cookie/session is created you can access the pages directly from browser, bypassing IFrame.
My development platform is asp.net 2.0+, vs2008, C# 2.0+
This is an example of one of the few times it is better to put the script in the head tag.
<html>
<head>
<title>sandBox</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (frameElement == null) {
//change location or close
window.location = "http://stackoverflow.com";
// or window.close();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
content goes here
</body>
</html>
Try this inside your head tag:
<script>
if(window.self !== window.top); //inside an iframe
else window.location = "http://stackoverflow.com/" // Outside
</script>
Use this JS in the page to check whether it is in iframe or not.
if(window == window.top) {
//page is not in an iframe
}

Detecting if YouTube is blocked by company / ISP

We have YouTube videos on a site and want to detect if it is likely that they will not be able to view them due to (mostly likely) company policy or otherwise.
We have two sites:
1) Flex / Flash
2) HTML
I think with Flex I can attempt to download http://youtube.com/crossdomain.xml and if it is valid XML assume the site is available
But with HTML I don't know how to do it. I can't even think of a 'nice hack'.
I like lacker's solution, but yes, it creates a race condition.
This will work and won't create a race contition:
var image = new Image();
image.onload = function(){
// The user can access youtube
};
image.onerror = function(){
// The user can't access youtube
};
image.src = "http://youtube.com/favicon.ico";
You can load an image from youtube using javascript and check its properties. The favicon is tiny and has a consistent url -
var image = new Image();
image.src = "http://youtube.com/favicon.ico";
if (image.height > 0) {
// The user can access youtube
} else {
// The user can't access youtube
}
I think this is slightly better than loading javascript because this won't try to run any code, and while youtube might rename their javascript files, or functions from those files, they are unlikely to ever rename their favicon.
This should work. Basically, it loads a youtube.com javascript file, then checks if a function in that file exists.
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://www.youtube.com/js/account.js"></script>
<script>
function has_you_tube()
{
if(typeof addVideosToQuicklist == 'function')
{
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script>alert( "has_youtube: " + has_you_tube() ); </script>
</body>
</html>
I got stuck on this today and tried the favicon test but it wasnt working in IE. I was using the YouTube Player API Reference for iframe Embeds to embed youtube videos into my site so what I did is perform a check on the player var defined just before the onYouTubeIFrameReady with a delay on the javascript call.
<script> function YouTubeTester() {
if (player == undefined) {
alert("youtube blocked");
}
}
</script>
<script>window.setTimeout("YouTubeTester()", 500);</script>
Seems to work for me. I needed the delay to get it to work in IE.
This worked for me... Its also my first post, hope it helps some one too.
<?php
$v = file_get_contents("https://www.youtube.com/iframe_api");
//Tie counts to a variable
$test = substr_count($v, 'loading');
if ($test > 0)
{ ?>
<iframe>YOUTUBE VIDEO GOES HERE</iframe>
<?php
}
else
{
echo "<br/> no connection";
}
?>

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