so I have this problem, Im trying to build a website in which people can give out links which I will then analyze using request-promise.js (so on the server side) . This analysis will try to find embed videos in the given link. If present I want to make that emebed video appear in an iframe on my current page.
So for now Ive managed to get the embed the video, and render it in an EJS template variable , but this means that I have to use res.render('page', variables) and from my understanding that means reloading the page.
What I want to know is if there is a way to do that without reloading the page ?
(my goal is to make the found video appear in a bootstrap modal div that appears after people gave the link and clicked on my upload button that trigers the scrapping of the given link)
Thanks for your help
Pardon me if my question is unclear
You can use an XMLHttpRequest to get the data from the server asynchronously and display/store them on the page without reloading the whole page.
var url = '/get-embed-video/'+link;
var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xmlHttp.readyState === 4) {
// here get the response from the server
// and display your data
}
}
xmlHttp.open("GET", url, true); // false for synchronous request
xmlHttp.send(null);
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I am currently developing a website that will dynamically load the page content using ajax triggered by hash changes.
The code looks like this
$("*").delegate("a", "click", function () {
// Trigger Hash Change
window.location.hash = $(this).attr("href");
return false;
});
$(window).bind('hashchange', function () {
let newHash = window.location.hash.substring(1);
$("#main-content").load(newHash + " #ajax-content", function (responseTxt, statusTxt, xhr) {
}).hide().fadeIn();
});
Basically what I am working on now is making the URL look "Pretty", I have modified the .htaccess file to remove the .html extension
So a URL that looks like this
www.example.com/about.html
will become this
www.example.com/about
If I navigate the index (home) "www.example.com" page of the website and then navigate from there to the about page, the URL looks fine. "www.example.com#about" since the server does not display the "index" in the URL.
However, if I navigate straight to the about page like this www.example.com/about, then from the about page to another page, for example, the contact page. I get a URL that looks like this www.example.com/about#contact. When it should look like this www.example.com#contact.
My question is what is the best way to handle this? should I use jquery to redirect all to the index page and then add the hash to load the correct content? or is there some way I can not display the unnecessary part of the URL?
I hope my question was clear, I'm new to the server-side stuff involving the .htaccess file. FOr the ajax stuff I was following this tutorial from CSS tricks
https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/85-best-practices-dynamic-content/
You can use history.pushState
window.history.pushState("object or string", "Title", "/new-url");
The url will be www.example.com/new-url
in fact you can get history.state after use this method.
console.log(window.history.state)
output should be "object or string"
You can see the docs here.
Remember to use / to override the entire path.
To do what i think that you want, you can just override the url to / and set the hash.
This is probably not the best way to do this, but I have managed to redirect any page to the home page and then replace the / with the hash value so that the site wont end up wit "messy" URLs.
if(window.location.pathname != "/home.html")
{
window.location.replace("home.html" + window.location.pathname.replace("/", "#"));
}
what happens id the user navigates to "*www.example.com/about*" they will actually be sent to the homepage with the #about.html. So the never end up like this "*www.example.com/about#about*"
I have a page one my website that I'd like to emulate into a 'newtab' chrome extension.
I want to make something similar to this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/animatedtabs-a-new-gif-on/kenhfdoiondldpcoajdbackbnmehgahl?hl=en
I have a lot of information on my server that i'd like to be able to serve as a chrome newtab extension - and this extension above loads a different GIF everytime a new tab is opened - how do they get data from their server? I don't seem to be able to find a way to do this.
I found the answer, for anyone wondering. The answer came in the form of this page:
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/xhr
Which basically states that if you put a URL into the 'permissions' field in the manifest.json file, you can then access that URL in your application using the JS found on that page, eg:
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://api.example.com/data.json", true);
xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
// innerText does not let the attacker inject HTML elements.
document.getElementById("resp").innerText = xhr.responseText;
}
}
xhr.send();
I've now got my chrome extension working perfectly!
I am loading a user-selected page into an iframe using the src property. If the load fails, I would like to report the problem in terms that will make sense to the user. iframe does not, in general, support onerror according to http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/dom_obj_frame.asp.
The page may come from the user's domain, not mine, so I cannot view the content of the iframe.
I can set a timeout and cancel it from my onload handler if the load is successful, but it would need to be a long timeout to avoid false error reports, and meanwhile Safari on my iPhone has displayed an alert that may confuse the user. Even this does not work for the Kindle Fire browser - it delivers a load event to my handler regardless of whether the load was successful.
Is there any event I can use to detect failure? Is there any way to suppress the default Safari behavior? Any way I can tell whether the load attempt has failed? (If I could do that, I could use a shorter timeout and poll until the load attempt is resolved).
I can require the use of up to date browsers, but would like a solution that is portable among as many smartphones and tablets as possible.
I have tested the AJAX Get idea, and it unfortunately does not work. A cross-domain AJAX Get to an arbitrary URI results in an exception, regardless of whether the target exists and can be loaded into the iframe or not.
You could set your iframe and/or ajax request to always call a page you control (ie: loader.php), sending loader.php the user's requested page via get. From loader.php, use curl or even just file_get_contents to fetch the external page. If the request fails to come back to loader.php, you can check the error there, and return whatever you want your iframe to display.
While my example references the use of php, curl is supported in a variety of scripting languages. It is likely more complicated than other solutions you might have, but would give you access to the response headers as well for troubleshooting why a page load failed.
As you've hinted, you'll face same-origin-policy type restrictions when you try to query anything inside the iframe if it's on a separate domain.
You could make an AJAX GET request to the iframe's URL before you pass it into the src of the frame. If you don't get an HTTP 200 response back from the AJAX call, then the site won't be able to load inside the frame either.
This will add overhead to the whole process, and is only useful if you're checking whether the iframe's document is a real URL that works. It won't help if you need to know when the iframe document has fully loaded.
If you need to know when the iframe has loaded, and it's on an external domain, then I believe you have no other option but to ask for some code to be added to those external sites to notify the parent page that they've loaded successfully.
Or, if it makes sense to do so, ask the end user to click a link to flag up that the content isn't loading correctly.
Late to the party, but I've managed to crack it:
At first, I thought to do an AJAX call like everyone else, except that it didn't work for me initially, as I had used jQuery. It works perfectly if you do a XMLHttpRequest:
var url = http://url_to_test.com/
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status != 200) {
console.log("iframe failed to load");
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", url, true);
xhttp.send();
Edit:
So this method works ok, except that it has a lot of false negatives (picks up a lot of stuff that would display in an iframe) due to cross-origin malarky. The way that I got around this was to do a CURL/Web request on a server, and then check the response headers for a) if the website exists, and b) if the headers had set x-frame-options.
This isn't a problem if you run your own webserver, as you can make your own api call for it.
My implementation in node.js:
app.get('/iframetest',function(req,res){ //Call using /iframetest?url=url - needs to be stripped of http:// or https://
var url = req.query.url;
var request = require('https').request({host: url}, function(response){ //This does an https request - require('http') if you want to do a http request
var headers = response.headers;
if (typeof headers["x-frame-options"] != 'undefined') {
res.send(false); //Headers don't allow iframe
} else {
res.send(true); //Headers don't disallow iframe
}
});
request.on('error',function(e){
res.send(false); //website unavailable
});
request.end();
});
I am trying to use HTML5 Appcache to speed up my web-mobile app by caching images and css/JS files. The app is based on dynamic web pages.
As already known – when using Appcache the calling html page is always cached -> bad for dynamic websites.
My solution - Create a first static page and in this page call the manifest file (manifest="cache.appcache") and load all my cached content. Then when the user is redirected to another dynamic page the resources will already be available. (Of course this second dynamic page will not have the manifest tag).
The problem is that if the second page is refreshed by the user, the resources are not loaded from the cache; they are loaded directly from the server!
This solution is very similar to using an Iframe on the first dynamic file. I found that the Iframe solution have the exact same problem.
Is there any solution for that? Can Appcache really be used with dynamic content?
Thanks
Yes appcache can be used for dynamic content if you handle you url parameters differently.
I solved this by using local storage (I used the jquery localstorage plugin to help with this).
The process is
Internally from the page when you would normally href from an anchor or redirect, instead call a function to redirects for you. This function stores the parameters from the url to localstorage, and then only redirects to the url without the parameters.
On the receiving target page. Get the parameters from localstorage.
Redirect code
function redirectTo(url) {
if (url.indexOf('?') === -1) {
document.location = url;
} else {
var params = url.split('?')[1];
$.localStorage.set("pageparams", params);
document.location = url.split('?')[0];
};
}
Target page code
var myParams = GetPageParamsAsJson();
var page = myParams.page;
function GetPageParamsAsJson() {
return convertUrlParamsToJson($.localStorage.get('pageparams'));
}
function convertUrlParamsToJson(params) {
if (params) {
var json = '{"' + decodeURI(params).replace(/"/g, '\\"').replace(/&/g, '","').replace(/=/g, '":"') + '"}';
return JSON.parse(json);
}
return [];
}
I had a hell of a time figuring out how to cache dynamic pages accessed by a URI scheme like this:
domain.com/admin/page/1
domain.com/admin/page/2
domain.com/admin/page/3
Now the problem is that the appcache won't cache each individual admin/page/... unless you visit it.
What I did was use the offline page to represent these pages that you may want to allow a user to access offline.
The JS in the offline page looks up the URI and scrapes it to find out which page it should show and fetches the data from localStorage which was populated with all the page data when the user visited the admin dashboard before being presented with the links to each individual page.
I'm open to other solutions but this is all I could figure out to bring a bunch of separate pages offline with only visiting the single admin page.
I've been working on a custom CMS in drupal for about two or three weeks now, and I keep running into this same problem. I'm trying to load a dynamically generated url (by extracting the node id of the target drupal page into $resultCut and appending it to the baseurl of the website). This iframe is embedded next to an instance of CKEditor, and the idea is to have the content in the iframe change when the fields in CKEditor are modified. I have the following Jquery:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
baseurl = urlhere;
url = baseurl+"<?php echo $resultCut ?>"
$('#EmuFrame').attr('src', url);
var HTML = $('#EmuFrame').contents().find('body').html();
alert ( "LOADING COMPLETE" + HTML );
});
$('#edit-field-mobile-page-header-label-0-value').change(function () { // writes changes to the header text to emulaor
var curr = $(this).val();
$('#EmuFrame').contents().find("h1").text(curr);
});
$('#edit-body').keyup(function(e) { // writes changes to the body text to emulator
var curr = $(this).val();
currhead = $('#EmuFrame').contents().find("h1").html();
$('#EmuFrame').contents().find('#content').html("<h1>"+currhead+"</h1>"+curr);
});
where #EmuFrame is the id of an iframe, and the #edit-* tags are the ids of fields in CKEditor that I am monitoring for change. When the user types, the keyup() or change() events is supposed to grab the new html and swap it with the html in the iframe.
As of right now, the LOADING COMPLETE alert fires, but there is no html in the alert. I noticed that the content of the iframe loads AFTER the alert fires, however, which is what led me to believe that it's a problem with the order in which the events trigger.
Further, I had an alert in the callback function of keyup that returned the new html [ alert(curr) ] that was generated when a user started typing, and this alert returns html (although, it is being grabbed from CKEditor). However, the iframe does not reflect any changes. If I append [ alert (currhead) ] though, nothing is alerted at all.
It might be of interest to note that the source url is technically on a different domain than the parent. however, I used a workaround (i'm pretty sure it works, because I've previously gotten the whole html replacement thing working, and then somehow it broke). Also, neither Firebug nor Chrome's console report any XMLHttpRequest errors. Also, I keep getting this error: "Uncaught Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [#disabled]" and I'm not sure what it means, and whether its relevant to my problem as stated above.
That was a ridiculously long plea for help, so THANKS FOR READING, and thank you for any help!!
Your note about about the cross-domain iframe src is worrisome -- you shouldn't be able to access its contents with javascript. Nevertheless:
You have these two lines in quick succession:
$('#EmuFrame').attr('src', url);
var HTML = $('#EmuFrame').contents().find('body').html();
Try waiting for the iframe to load first:
$('#EmuFrame').load(function() {
var HTML = $('#EmuFrame').contents().find('body').html();
}