capture top.location masking URL in PHP variable?
The site has a few landing pages that link to the same Drupal webform.
The landing pages are framed in masked URLs (and thus so is the webform).
Several masked URLs may display the same landing page/webform.
Need to capture the top window location (ie the masking URL).
HTTP_REFERER has the URL of the landing page, the referrer of the webform frame, not the top masking URL.
This could be accomplished by setting a cookie on the landing page and retrieving it on the webform... is there a simpler way?
Could a php session variable be used instead of a cookie? (must contain the top window location of the landing page and/or webform - same masking URL)
decibel.places posted this at 21:40 — 21st December 2008.
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Setting the cookie with javascript on the landing page, then reading it in the webform with php works - only when the landing page is not in the masking frame.
The masking is being set up through GoDaddy admin by the webmaster
Should we use .htaccess? how would that be done, to rewrite a url like http://domain/content/filename to the masking url http://someotherdomain/ ? could I then capture the someotherdomain in a cookie? or would it be accessible by REQUEST_URI or HTTP_HOST?
When it is framed in the masking URL I can access the top/parent window, alert(top) shows the object Window, but I cannot read the top.location (or parent.location, or window.parent.location, or self.parent.location or any location.toString() ...)
I think there is a cross-domain security issue in the javascript.
suggestions?
decibel.places posted this at 21:48 — 21st December 2008.
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Eureka!
setting the cookie to document.referrer captures the parent frame's URL!
YAY!
drajanik posted this at 07:19 — 23rd June 2009.
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Hi,
I also have the same issue. I have set up the URL Masking in GoDaddy
Can you help in understanding on how to set the cookie to document.referrer????
Regards
Raj
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