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Remy Sharp
December 02, 2013
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iframe: a less than useful look at the abuse the iframe takes
A 20 minute version for dotjs of my iframe abuse talk
Remy Sharp
December 02, 2013
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<iframe> A less than useful look at the abuse the
iframe takes. Remy Sharp • @rem • Left Logic
2007: detect globals 2008: jsbin 2010: jsconsole 2011: responsivepx
2008: 1.jsbin.com
2010: 2.jsbin.com
2012: 3.jsbin.com
framesets
Amazingly still work! two frames side by side
document.body = frameset
Scott Isaacs @ Microsoft 1997
iframe support dropped in XHTML 1.1 Lack of <object> support
in IE7 meant iframes stuck around.
Foundation of early comet techniques 2000/2006 var iframe = document.createElement('iframe');
iframe.style.display = 'none'; document.head.appendChild(iframe); iframe.src = '/live-stream'; require('http').createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, { 'content-type': 'text/html' }); res.write(sendPadding()); setInterval(function () { res.write(getLiveData()); }, 1000); });
iframe must be in DOM to start writing to it
var window = iframe.contentWindow || iframe.contentDocument.parentWindow;
function iframe() { var iframe = document.createElement('iframe'); document.body.appendChild(iframe); return iframe.contentWindow
|| iframe.contentDocument.parentWindow; } var window = iframe(), document = window.document; document.open(); document.write(myAwesomeHTML); document.close();
Load won't fire until .close is called - though content
loads
Take a generated iframe out of the DOM, it'll reset
Dynamic iframes don't behave like regular windows !
The "stick it in an iframe" bit
Auto-play! Missing <bgsound> on mobile? <iframe src="muzak.mp3"></iframe> iOS 4 only
:(
Site doesn't have JSON API? Put their HTML embed in
an iframe and scrape away!
Detecting globals
Mobile WebView (PhoneGap, Chrome for iOS, etc)
Click-jacking Watch out!
Preventable in IE9+ via X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
Damn you mobile version <meta name="viewport" ...>
"Damn flash-ad is showing through the dropdown!"
Sync loading can be offloaded to iframes, as it won't
block the parent frame.
Factory reset a Samsung S3? <iframe src="tel:*2767*3855%23"></iframe>
x-frame comms
For bi-directional non- sockets comms
Used in jsconsole's remote
your mobile site add <script> iframe origin: jsconsole.com jsconsole.com postMessage
& onmessage EventSource Ajax post
Set "base" origin via document.domain
iframe a.com – iframe b.com — iframe a.com Deep communication
http://bit.ly/cross-domain-barrier
Passing data before load event via: window.name
Sandboxing iframe return "clean" object
Enable appcache on unknown urls
•Request / == "app chrome" •All other urls include iframe
to light manifest page •Manifest says: FALLBACK: /* / •Therefore: any request to an unknown url, the "app chrome" will load via the fallback
Future / Now / Good Parts • postMessage/onMessage • seamless
• srcdoc • sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts" http://benvinegar.github.com/seamless-talk/
In the next episode: setTimeout! Remy Sharp • @rem •
Left Logic leftlogic.com/hiring