75327 - Properly targeted subframes opened in new window.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13871

(Core :: Layout: Images, Video, and HTML Frames, defect)

Description

[Mike Eheler]

Goto the URL http://www.planetunreal.com/realmaps/ and click on "Reviews". Two
sperate frames open below, a thin one on the left which contains a list, and a
larger one on the right. The document in the left frame resides at
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~realmaps/reviews-menu.php and the document in the
right frame resides on the same server as the frameset document
(http://www.planetunreal.com/realmaps/noreview.html) as well, all links clicked
on the left frame are supposed to open in the frame on the right.

This works when all documents are on the same server, but when I move the
document on the left another server, any links clicked on will open in a new
window as opposed to a frame on the left.

I have tried targeting the links in several different ways. The way that is
currently being used is by setting a <base
href="http://www.planetunreal.com/realmaps/"> and then calling links such as <a
href="reviews/somereview.html" target="revmain">

This behaviour occurs in Mozilla 0.8.1 for Windows 2000 and for Linux, as well
as Netscape Navigator 4.76 for Linux (but not in windows). Other browsers I have
tried (such as Internet Explorer or Opera) do not display this behaviour.

So to summarize, when two documents in seperate frames reside on different
servers, links opened across-frames are opened in a new window instead of the
targeted frame. This happens in Windows 2000 and in Linux. I have not been able
to test in other platforms.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

this is a security feature.  A frame loaded from server A should not be able to
write into a frame loaded from server B.  See bug 13871, which instituted this
policy.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13871 ***

Comment 2

[Amarendra Hanumanula]

 Verified dupe of bug# 13871