Cannot display my rails 4 app in iframe even if 'X-Frame-Options' is 'ALLOWALL'

Steve Robinson picture Steve Robinson · Jul 9, 2013 · Viewed 62.4k times · Source

I am trying to test a responsive design. I am using Rails 4. I know it sets 'X-Frame-Options' to SAME ORIGIN. So I overrided it in development.rb using

config.action_dispatch.default_headers = {
    'X-Frame-Options' => 'ALLOWALL'
  }

and it worked. I checked out the network request in the Chrome console and it is as follows:

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But still websites like responsive.is and responsinator.com give me below error:

Refused to display 'http://localhost:3000/' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'. about:blank:1

Whats going on??

Answer

Timrael picture Timrael · Jul 25, 2013

Try just to delete this header 'X-Frame-Options'. Maybe this way in controller:

before_filter :allow_iframe_requests
...
def allow_iframe_requests
  response.headers.delete('X-Frame-Options')
end