Has anyone else had any problems using google's Domain Tracking API, I am specifically talking about the _link() method.
The documentation is here
The example provided shows that the _link() method should be used in the onclick event like this:
Go to our sister site
However, this essentially just makes the link...do nothing (most probably because of the 'return false').
My understanding is that the pageTracker._link() method is 'supposed' to add additional parameters to the url and do it's own document.location style redirect.
Any ideas / catches / previous posts??
Sorry for the obvious question, but did you enable linking on the target page:
You must also enable linking on the target site (pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true);) in order for link to work properly.
Apparently a miss-interpretation of the documentation:
You must also enable linking on the target site
So lets clarify also
pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true); is set on the ORIGINATING page
pageTracker._setAllowLinker(true); is set on the TARGET page
I only had it enabled on the target page, as the docs indicate.
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I want to create a list of links opening the targets in new tabs from my private page and I don't want the referring URL to be passed on.
I tried the following method, but it didn't solve the problem:
<script>
function op(url){
window.open(url.replace(/<(?:.|\n)*?>/gm,''),'_newtab');
}
</script>
<span onclick="javascript:op(this.innerHTML);">http://www.google.com<span>
Is there any way how to spoof or blank the referrer? In the worst case I might create an iframe and put the page with links on some free hosting, but I'd prefer some more elegant solution. The only requirements are tha t it should work in Chrome, Opera, IE and FF (2011+ versions), accessibility is not an issue, since it'll be used by very few users I know.
The referring URL is part of the HTTP protocol, not the mark-up. You can't change this.
Also, you never need to specify javascript: in an event handler. It's always is and can only be javascript.
There is a rel="noreferrer" which is not yet suported by Firefox...
See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/8957778/22470
Create a tiny app on Heroku that receives a URL then forwards the user.
You could redirect to an intermediate page that redirects to the final website, this would hide the true referer.
It seems the easiest is the iframe dirty way.
When I was examining Google+, I'm surprized when I see usage of URLs. Google profile URLs change without refresing page. For example this is a photos tab URL: https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/photos When you click Videos tab, URL exactly goes to https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/videos without refreshing page. How Google coders success this?
Have a look at the history object https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browser_history
Especially history.pushState and history.replaceState
(Should mention that this only works in modern browsers, for old ones use hashes).
This is about HTML 5. take a look at "onpopstate event". For further information go to the link. http://spoiledmilk.dk/blog/html5-changing-the-browser-url-without-refreshing-page
You could try using a pushState.
You can change the URL to another URL within the same domain, but can not change the domain for security reasons.In Javascript, you can use.
window.history.pushState(“object or string”, “Title”, “/new-url”);
Object and string is your domain ex. www.google.co.in
title you can give whats you want.
and lastly you place new url ex. 'webhp?source=search_app'
ex. window.history.pushState(“www.google.co.in”, “Google”, “/webhp?source=search_app”);
You could try using a hash. This is not how google does it, but it doesn't force a refresh. In Javascript, you can use
parent.location.hash = "Text";
so that the URL will be http://yoursite.com/yourpage#text
Edit: This seems to be new to Google+. GMail uses a hash like
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#inbox/130f48da33c5330
I am trying to do the following:
Main document calls a function in iFrame whose URL is from a different location but the Javascript function I'm trying to call loaded from the same domain as the main document.
Is there any way to do this?
To clarify:
Main document: http://www.main.com
iFrame document: http://www.example.com
JS function i'm calling in iFrame is at http://www.main.com/js/script.js
I'm getting
Permission denied to access property 'js_function'
When doing
document.getElementById("iframe").contentWindow.js_function(n)
Even though the script is hosted on main.com it is executed in the context of example.com and therefore is considered to be part of example.com ... and therefore has no access to variables or functions in the main.com window. You can hack around this with various cross domain communication hacks (or you can ignore IE < 8 and use window.postMessage by itself).
SEE ALSO: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=109
I see what you're doing. There was a "hack" that made use of two iframes (if I remember correctly).
Both that hack and the one you mention here are awfully obscure, and I wouldn't be surprised if they have been locked down knowingly.
The best fix I can think of is to load the code for js_function() in the main window (outside of the iframe).
Can you be more specific on what the JS code does? I may be able to help better.
Use easyXDM's RPC feature, it combines XDM with RPC.
An example of this can be seen here: http://consumer.easyxdm.net/current/example/methods.html
I am trying to integrate with the FireShot API to given a URL, grab HTML of another web page into a div then take a screenshot of it.
Some things I will need to do after getting the HTML
grab <link> & <script> from <head>
grab <body> into <div>
But 1st, it seems when I try to do a
$.get("http://google.com", function(data) { ... });
I get a 200 in firebug colored red. I think it has to do with sites not allowing you to grab their page with JS? Then is opening a window the best I can do? But how might I control the other page with jQuery or call fsapi on that page?
UPDATE
I tried to do something like below to do something when the new window is ready, but FireBug says "Permission denied to access property 'document'"
w = window.open($url.val());
setTimeout(function() { // if I dont do this, I always get about:blank, is there a better way around this?
$(w.document).ready(function() {
console.log(w.document.body);
});
}, 1000);
I believe the cross-site security setup within Javascript is basically blocking this. You'd likely have to proxy the content through your own domain.
There are a couple other options I think for break the cross-site security constraints, but I'm not sure I'd promote them.
If the "another page" locates within the same domain of your hosting page, yes, you can. Please refer to jQuery's $().load() API.
Otherwise, you're disallowed to do so by the browser's Cross-Site Security Policy. At this moment, you can choose to use iFrame instead of DIV.
Some jQuery plugins, e.g. thickbox provides ability to load pages to appropriate container automatically.
Unless I am correct, I do not believe you can AJAX a page cross domain (e.g. from domain1.com to domain2.com). To get around this, you can have a PHP "proxy" script that does the "getting" of the page and then pass it to JS.
For example, in JS you would get() http://mydomain.com/get/?domain=http://google.com and then do what you need to do!
I have a html page on my localhost - get_description.html.
The snippet below is part of the code:
<input type="text" id="url"/>
<button id="get_description_button">Get description</button>
<iframe id="description_container" src="#"/>
When the button is clicked the src of the iframe is set to the url entered in the textbox. The pages fetched this way are very big with lots of linked files. What I am interested in the page is a block of text contained in a <div id="description"> element.
Is there a way to mitigate downloading of resources linked in the page that loads into the iframe?
I don't want to use curl because the data is only available to logged in users and the steps to take with curl to get the content is too complicated. The iframe is simple as I use this on a box which sends the right cookies to identify the request as coming from a logged in user, but the problem is that it is very wasteful to get nearly 1 MB of data to keep 1 KB of it and throw out the rest.
Edit
If the proposed method just works in Firefox it is fine, so I added Firefox tag. Also, it is possible that the answer actually is from the realm of Firefox add-on techniques, so I added that tag as well.
The problem is not that I cannot get at what I'm looking for, rather, the problem is the easy iframe method is wasteful.
I know that Firefox does allow loading only the text of a page. If you open a page and press Ctrl+U you are taken to 'view page source' window, There links behave as normal and are clickable, if you click on a link in source view, the source of the new page is loaded into the view source window, without the linked resources being downloaded, exactly what I'm trying to get. But I don't know how to access this behaviour.
Another example is the Adblock add-on. It somehow kills elements before they get loaded. With plain Javascript this is not possible. Because it only is triggered too late to intervene in good time.
The Same Origin Policy forbids any web page to access contents of any other web page in a different domain so basically you cannot do that.
However it seems that with some browsers it is allowed to access web pages content if you are trying to access it from a local web page which seems to be your case.
Safari, IE 6/7/8 are browser that allow a local web page to do so via XMLHttpRequest (source: Google Browser Security Handbook) so you may want to choose to use one of those browsers to do what you need (note that future versions of those browsers may not allow to do so anymore).
A part from this solution I only see two possibities:
If the web pages you need to fetch content from are somehow controlled by you, you can create a simpler interface to let other web pages to get the content you need (for example allowing JSONP requests).
If the web pages you need to fetch content from are not controlled by you the only solution I see is to fetch content server side logging in from the server directly (I know that you don't want to do so, but I don't see any other possibility if the previous I mentioned are not practicable)
Hope it helps.
Actually I've seen Cross Domain jQuery .load request before, here: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/cross-domain-requests-with-jquery/
The author claims that codes like these found on that page
$('#container').load('http://google.com'); // SERIOUSLY!
$.ajax({
url: 'http://news.bbc.co.uk',
type: 'GET',
success: function(res) {
var headline = $(res.responseText).find('a.tsh').text();
alert(headline);
}
});
// Works with $.get too!
would work. (The BBC code might not work because of the recent redesign, but you get the idea)
Apparently it is using YQL wrapped into a jQuery plugin to do the trick. Now I cannot say I fully understand what he is doing there but it appears to work, and fits the bill. Once you load the data I suppose it is a simple matter of filtering out the data that you need.
If you prefer something that works at the browser level, may I suggest Mozilla's Jetpack framework for lightweight extensions. I've not yet read the documentations in its entirety but it should contain the APIs needed for this to work.
There are various ways to go about this in AJAX, I'm going to show the jQuery way for brevity as one option, though you could do this in vanilla JavaScript as well.
Instead of an <iframe> you can just use a container, let's say a <div> like this:
<div id="description_container"></div>
Then to load it:
$(function() {
$("#get_description_button").click(function() {
$("#description_container").load($("input").val() + " #description");
});
});
This uses the .load() method which takes a string in this format: .load("url selector"), then takes that element in the page and places it's content inside the container you're loading, in this case #description_container.
This is just the jQuery route, mainly to illustrate that yes, you can do what you want, but you don't have to do it exactly like this, just showing the concept is getting what you want from an AJAX request, rather than in an <iframe>.
Your description sounds like you are fetching pages from the same domain (you said that you need to be logged in and have session credentials) so have you tried to use async request via XMLHttpRequest? It might complain if the html on a page is particularly messed up but you chould still be able to get raw text via .responseText and extract what you need with a regex.