iframe problem

Posted by cakewalkr7 on June 27, 2005, 7:10 am

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We have a form that contains an iframe. In the iframe are 3 select
boxes (country, state and city). When you select the country, the
iframe page refreshes with the appropriate states and does the same
thing when you select a state. We did some testing in the different
browsers with this method and it appeared that the only browser that it
worked reliably in was IE. So, we put some asp code in that ran a
browser check and displayed the iframe only if the user was using IE.

We noticed that over the last few weeks, we've been getting a number of
support request emails from users who try to fill out the form and when
they submit it, it doesn't contain the information from the iframe. We
found that when some users would disable their firewall, it would work.
But, it didn't fix all occurences of this problem.

Does anyone know if there's a problem with this type of setup or what
could be happening? Oh, and the process is like this. They fill out
the form, submit it to page 2 (page 2 pulls all the variables from page
1 and puts them in hidden form values) and page 2 submits to master
processing page which returns the error. Thanks.

Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on June 27, 2005, 2:53 pm

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cakewalkr7 wrote:

> We have a form that contains an iframe. In the iframe are 3 select

> boxes (country, state and city). When you select the country, the

> iframe page refreshes with the appropriate states and does the

> same thing when you select a state. We did some testing in the

> different browsers with this method and it appeared that the only

> browser that it worked reliably in was IE. So, we put some asp

> code in that ran a browser check and displayed the iframe only if

> the user was using IE.

Is this for the WWW or an intranet?

I don't use IE. Ever...

> We noticed that over the last few weeks, we've been getting a

> number of support request emails from users who try to fill out the

> form and when they submit it, it doesn't contain the information

> from the iframe. We found that when some users would disable their

> firewall, it would work. But, it didn't fix all occurences of this

> problem.

What happens to your form when you disable JavaScript? Without your
URL, we can't really tell...

> Does anyone know if there's a problem with this type of setup or

> what could be happening? Oh, and the process is like this. They

> fill out the form, submit it to page 2 (page 2 pulls all the

> variables from page 1 and puts them in hidden form values) and page

> 2 submits to master processing page which returns the error.

Hidden form values are prone to failure, methinks.

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Posted by cakewalkr7 on June 27, 2005, 11:21 am

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It's used in a number of employment related web sites, so no, no
intranet. I understand you not wanting to use IE and I don't really
want to anymore either, but the fact is, you still have to make sure
things work in it since the majority of surfing is done with it. We
wrote some no script content for the page informing the user that they
must have javascript enabled to use the form. As for the URL, you
can't access the iframe page any more. I've taken it out of production
until we get the problem resolved (if that's even possible). Why are
hidden form values prone to failure? I've never run into a problem
with them before. Thanks.

Posted by Adrienne on June 27, 2005, 6:27 pm

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Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "cakewalkr7" <cakewalkr7
@hotmail.com> writing in news:1119892893.683260.87690
@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> It's used in a number of employment related web sites, so no, no

> intranet. I understand you not wanting to use IE and I don't really

> want to anymore either, but the fact is, you still have to make sure

> things work in it since the majority of surfing is done with it. We

> wrote some no script content for the page informing the user that they

> must have javascript enabled to use the form. As for the URL, you

> can't access the iframe page any more. I've taken it out of production

> until we get the problem resolved (if that's even possible). Why are

> hidden form values prone to failure? I've never run into a problem

> with them before. Thanks.

>

Hidden form values can be read and spoofed by the client, but in your
case, you might be having a situation where they are not getting
populated. Have you tried turning off js and seeing if the fields
populate?

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Posted by cakewalkr7 on June 27, 2005, 11:36 am

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Yes, and they are being populated. Except of course the field that is
turning up as the problem field. But I don't think that's what's
causing the problem. We've specifically asked the people who have
problems if they have javascript enabled and they do. Plus, with the
big no script warning at the top of the page, if they still don't turn
it on, it's their fault if they get an error like that.