Re: Location: header to get from webobjects app in iframe to static master website and back
Re: Location: header to get from webobjects app in iframe to static master website and back
- Subject: Re: Location: header to get from webobjects app in iframe to static master website and back
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:18:37 -0700
Hi Johan,
On Oct 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
The WebObjects application I have built is running in an iFrame in
another website which is built statically. Now the question was to
be able to send links to specific information about performances
(it's for a theater) that is in the WebObjects application.
That in itself was accomplished with a Direct Action that points to
a specific performance, something along the line of http://www.sometheater.nl/apps/WebObjects/reservation.woa/wa/showPerformance?performnanceid=999
. That is also what I am using to point from a HTML page to a
specific performance in the iFrame.
The question was then asked that it would be nice to have the whole
website around it, so that people get pointed back to the website.
Getting the complete website around it is not too difficult: just
send a Location redirect if there is a request that does not come
from the master website pages (in the call to the directAction I
would add some variable FromMasterWebsite=yes that would assume the
application running as an iFrame in the website).
First question is how to get the Location: redirect running? I tried
response.appendHeader("http://www.sometheater.nl";, "Location");
to add to the response header, but that does not seem to be enough.
Return a WORedirect or ERXRedirect?
Second question is how can I get point from the master website to
the same performance? Is there some trickery with javascript that
would accomplish in a way that the website would still be able to be
loaded as static pages, but having the ability to call via a
javascript:onload() or something that would point to the correct
DirectAction link and performanceid?
You could redirect to http://www.sometheater.nl?performnanceid=999 and
then parse that in the onLoad and set the iFrame location. The
problem with that is is would stick unless you somehow later
redirected to just http://www.sometheater.nl. Cookies are another
idea, I don't recall if you can set a cookie when you redirect. I
think you can, but the RFC is a little vague on that.
Chuck
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Chuck Hill Senior Consultant / VP Development
Practical WebObjects - for developers who want to increase their
overall knowledge of WebObjects or who are trying to solve specific
problems.
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