How to fix "Blocked a frame with origin "https://example.org" from accessing a cross-origin frame."

Question

For my personal use, I'm trying to show https://maps.google.com inside an iframe. Note: I am NOT looking to use Google's Embed API.

Here's what I've done:

• use a Chrome Extension to remove the following request headers: X-Frame-Options, Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Methods
• add instead these headers: Access-Control-Allow-Methods: *, Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors *;
• the above is done on ALL request headers on ALL urls (browser.webRequest.onHeadersReceived.addListener in my extension), it's super permissive, but for now I'm just trying to make it work.

Now I'm trying to do <iframe src=" https://maps.google.com" />.

It works half-way:

• I see Google Maps showing on my iframe
• But there's a permanent "Loading..." text on the bottom, and I cannot click on markers or search stuff (see screenshot).
• I get the following error in the console:

Blocked autofocusing on a form control in a cross-origin subframe.
maps:13 Uncaught DOMException: Blocked a frame with origin "https://www.google.com" from accessing a cross-origin frame.
    at Object._.Hr (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:210:51)
    at /maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=vwr,vd,a,owc,ob,sp,en,smi,sc,vlg,log,smr,as,wrc/rt=j/d=1/ed=1/exm=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:3599:3
    at /maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=vwr,vd,a,owc,ob,sp,en,smi,sc,vlg,log,smr,as,wrc/rt=j/d=1/ed=1/exm=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:4990:3
    at NLa (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1677:132)
    at LLa.next (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1676:469)
    at IIa.f [as H] (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1561:184)
    at RIa (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1556:332)
    at eJa (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1565:43)
    at vA.Ma (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1564:405)
    at mb (https://www.google.com/maps/_/js/k=maps.m.en.dc5HEiFGHqQ.O/m=sc2,per,mo,lp,ti,ds,stx,bom,b/rt=j/d=1/rs=ACT90oFcxIV8Ad7kvBMCB_zNoSobKCZYEw:1563:293)

Any ideas on what I could try next to make this work? Or is it just plainly not possible?

Answer 1

Short Answer: This can't be done.

Long Answer: X-Frame-Options is decided at the server side. What this means is, the one opening the page doesn't decide if document can be opened in iframe, instead author of document decides it. In this case, its Google.

I tried achieving the same thing way back with Google search where you type a word in text box and hitting submit will pop an iframe with Google results. I did a some research and learned it can't be done since Google doesn't allow different origins to display their pages.

That's why they have APIs.

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