RE: Secure transaction in iFrame

Is there any way to modify the iframe action to show the embedded url?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill McCarroll email@hidden
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:19 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: RE: Secure transaction in iFrame

It works and looks much better as an embedded iFrame…I wonder what else I could do to maintain the look and feel…link to new window…what else, anything?

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Lee Davis email@hidden
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 7:08 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Secure transaction in iFrame

Some browsers won’t allow this sort of mixed-mode, or at least will
flag it as a potential attempt at confusing the visitor. But you are
correct that if the secure stuff all happens within the iframe, and
never targets anything outside of its iframe, then there’s actually
no way for the browser or the server to tell the difference between
that and loading the content of the iframe into a new browser window.

But perception is, as you say, where the problem lies, and I don’t
know if the browser will signal (with its little lock icon) that the
page is secure if it’s actually looking at the outer page.

Walter

On Nov 9, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Bill McCarroll wrote:

I think the security of the transaction (credit card submission
process) is maintained within the iFrame. The problem is how will
my savvy customers feel comfortable when they don’t see the https
url during the purchase process? Or am I wrong in thinking the
security doesn’t carry through the iFrame?


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Is there any way to modify the iframe action to show the embedded url?

No, that’s not how an iframe works. It’s almost exactly the same as a regular frameset, except less complicated to lay out. But the basic premise is that the browser loads a host page, which in turn loads a child page into the iframe. From the browser’s perspective, it has loaded the host page, and while it is complicit in loading the child page, it will not update the location field because from its perspective, nothing has changed.

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Thanks Walter…I may have to go back to a link to a new window then.

Bill

No, that’s not how an iframe works. It’s almost exactly the same as
a regular frameset, except less complicated to lay out. But the
basic premise is that the browser loads a host page, which in turn
loads a child page into the iframe. From the browser’s perspective,
it has loaded the host page, and while it is complicit in loading
the child page, it will not update the location field because from
its perspective, nothing has changed.

Walter


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