Access-Control-Allow-Origin not working for iframe within the same domain
I'm trying to access an iframe within a subdomain and get a cross domain error.
Here is the code of example.mydomain.com/iframe_test.html:
<html>
<head>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="http://example2.mydomain.com/welcome.php" width="1000" height="600"></iframe>
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
setTimeout(function(){
$('#innerdiv',$('iframe').contents()).hide();
},5000);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
And here is the code of example2.mydomain.com/welcome.php:
<?php
header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin: " . "*");
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="innerdiv">
hello
</div>
</body>
</html>
When the line $('#innerdiv',$('iframe').contents()).hide() is executed, the following error occurs:
Uncaught SecurityError: Failed to read the 'contentDocument' property from 'HTMLIFrameElement': Blocked a frame with origin "http://example.mydomain.com" from accessing a frame with origin "http://example2.mydomain.com". Protocols, domains, and ports must match.
I checked with Fiddler that the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header was really returned in the response of welcome.php
Is it possible to access the contents of an iframe within a subdomain?
Answer
Access-Control-Allow-Origin is used only for XHR.
What you need is called Same Origin Policy.
You have to add document.domain = 'example.com' to your pages.