I have a main website (Site A) with a page that contains an iframe that shows information from another website (Site B) (ours as well).
The content inside the page on another website (Site B) is based on the cookies set on Site B. However, loading the cookie-filled site inside an iframe on a page on (Site A) shows no information. I can show simple text that does not rely on cookies but not any content that needs to access cookies.
Are there any Cookie attributes that I can set to make it work?
The content loads properly on Firefox just not on Chrome.
Thanks. :)
In Chrome, you should add the attribute SameSite='None' with Secure.
In Firefox and Safari, you should disable the "prevent cross-site tracking cookies" in settings as well.
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In our application,we have an IFrame which is used to display any site (which are set through admin/crm console).We are experiencing a strange issue in showing sites with cookie consent popup in IFrame. In IFrame even if user accepts the Cookies consent,in subsequent requests the popup appears again.It looks like the IFrame is not able to send or set the cookies.
When we open the websites in browser tabs, the popup does not come again once we accept the cookie.What might be happening and how can we get rid of these cookie consent popups once the user accepts it in the IFrame? Please note we don't have control over the sites shown in IFrame.
I tried simple HTML page with IFrame and the issue replicated there,code as follow
<html>
<head>
<title>IFrame issue</title>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="https://www.nutrition.org.uk/" height="100%" width="100%" title="IFrame Example" ></iframe>
</body>
</html>
Screenshot of popup (Bottom of the page in black color)
Update:-
I checked the cookies set for this website,
In normal browser tab when user clicks "OK" button.A new cookie is set e.g. in this case "cookieAcceptanceCookie"="accepted".Check below image,
Same i checked with IFrame and there too same cookie was set.Check below image.
So it looks like the issue remains in sending this cookie in subsequent requests.I guess normal browser tabs can send this cookie where as IFrame is not able to send it,hence this issue is coming in the IFrame.
This is actually a common privacy feature of browsers, that iframes aren't allowed to set Cookies. It's a protection against CSRF and an anti-tracking feature, because websites for a long time were tracking users via cookies that come from iframes.
You'll probably need to instruct your users to Allow third-party cookies in chrome://settings/content/cookies, possibly creating a page like this one.
If you controlled the sites inside the iframe, you could use SameSite=None ..... but unfortunately that's not applicable because you don't have control of them.
I know this has been asked a few times, but on all the answers I found there was someone asking if it would still work and somebody else saying that it doesn't, so I was wondering if there is a solution to this problem that still works with the latest version of chrome:
Lets say we have website with an iframe embedded in it, the iframe source is from another host. The page inside the iframe needs cookies to work, but Google Chrome seems to refuse to set cookies that are set within the iframe. (This only happens when "block 3rd party cookies" is checked which seems to be happening on its own because I have multiple reports from different users who didn't touch the advanced options)
I have control over both of the sites, though I can only modify the html on the page that contains the iframe, no server side stuff.
Things I have tried so far that didn't work:
Emedding an image from the same host as the iframe's source
making a post request to the iframe
setting up a P3P header
I can also send messages using xdm, though I don't know if that could help.
If anyone has any further ideas it would be greatly apreciated! I feel like there must be a solution to this problem somewhere
Setting cookies inside an iFrame can be troublesome. However, iFrame can access cookies set outside the iFrame. You can show the page in a popup window which sets the necessary cookies (like authentication, etc) and then access these cookies from within the iFrame.
This is very helpful in case you want to authenticate user on some other domain. Just show a popup, authenticate and set cookies, then access these cookies on your site from iFrame.
I think the question is pretty simple: what reasons could an iframe have for not loading its content?
This came up because I have an iframe in my site's "thank you" page to track conversions. For some reason, when using dev tools in Chrome I can't find any content inside the body or head tags inside the iframe.
But if I click on the iframe's URL, the conversion is correctly activated and I see the message "Conversion logged: true".
Could there be something in my own site preventing the iframe from loading? How can I assure that the iframe will load correctly? Could using an img pixel instead solve this problem?
Because your iframe is coming from a different domain, it is possible the domain you are attempting to serve the iframe from has a security policy which prevents you from embedding it in your page.
There are two potential technologies related to this.
X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP header: page owners can specify that their content should not show in an iframe or only show in an iframe on the same origin (domain).
Content Security Policy (CSP): has "frame-src" (non-standard implementation in Firefox) and "frame-options" (standardized) directives. It allows setting policies for iframes similar to X-FRAME-OPTIONS.
In essence, if you're serving content from a third-party site you don't control, it's possible they may have an HTTP header or security policies in place that would prevent the iframe content from showing in your page.
More Resources:
CSP support (caniuse.com)
Other possibilities (which I think are unlikely since it worked when you loaded the page directly):
Ad-blocking browser extensions
"Do Not Track" policy
Browser extensions that block tracking tools
Tracking elements are often blocked by browser add-ons like Adblock Plus and NoScript.
For being more specific in your case, we need an example page that is demonstrating the problem.
I have a website which is hosted via my providers webhosting.
I have bought another domainname and forwarded my current website to it.
The technique it uses is cloacking, so my old website is a frame in my new domain.
Everything works perfectly but when I click a hyperlink that goes outside the website (e.g. facebook page), the page won't show.
I have the following error in my Google Chrome console:
Refused to display Hyperlink in a frame because it set X-Frame-Options to DENY.
Any link, tutorial help will be appreciated.
The X-Frame-Options is submitted by pages if they don't want to be displayed in frame or iframe (see mdn: The X-Frame-Options response header)
The message tells you that Facebook tells the browser, that it does not want to be displayed in a frame. To solve this problem you need to set the target attribute for these links to _top or _parent. But be award that the user could prevent these options by browser extensions.
If you plan to use the second domain instead of the first one you should think over doing a 301 redirect. What you should avoid is to find a solution that displays the same content (without iframe) on both domains, because of double content.
I want to have two facebook pages open at the same time as part of my html page.
So when you go to mypage.html, there will be displayed two facebook pages. Is this possible?
I get something like:
with code like:
<frameset cols="25%,75%">
or
<iframe height="*" src="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150277739848763&set=pu.105012493762&type=1&theater" width="100%">
<p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p> </iframe>
I work on Facebook's security team and actually helped write the code that causes this. We do this (a form of frame busting) to prevent clickjacking attacks where an attacker can put Facebook in an iframe, hide it, and trick the user into clicking in the facebook frame and taking some action (e.g. posting a malicious link to their profile, etc).
While Jason's answer is going in the right direction, it's not true that browsers will give you access to the DOM of a page you insert in an iframe in your page. The Same Origin Policy dictates that javascript on one domain cannot access anything on a page on a different domain.
Facebook prevents you from linking directly to the actual site via IFRAME (or any frame). This is because any site putting Facebook in an IFRAME(or any frame) could use Javascript to access elements of the facebook page, including username and password fields.
There is no way around this. It is built in to the browsers themselves to send some information along in the request header that says it is being requested to be put in frame.
Gmail and several other sites do this as well.
There are specific situations where overriding the "x-frame-options" security policy is useful, such as in digital signage where it is desirable to show an organization's facebook page in a iframe alongside other signage iframes.
Clickjacking and phishing will not occur because the organization is displaying its own facebook page on its own browser-driven display devices.
If the browser doesn't provide an internal x-frame override on its "about:flags" page, you may need to install a browser extension to override x-frame-options on the signage device.