I have a site on A.com and an iframe on B.com which calls javascript from A.com. This works great in FF. In IE7 / 8 I am getting a
Message: Access is denied.
message. I have checked the HTTP Traffic via Fiddler - and I can see that it isn't blocked in Fiddler ?
Any ideas what could be causing this and how to solve?
If both the pages are under your control (i.e. they belong to you and you cn alter the code), try this -
http://www.tomhoppe.com/index.php/2008/03/cross-sub-domain-javascript-ajax-iframe-etc/
Set document.domain like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
document.domain = 'tomhoppe.com';
</script>
IFrames can communicate as long as they are "of the same origin" - so same domain and same protocol. Communication is blocked if they are of different origin.
HTML5 introduces a new communication mechanism. It may be worth looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/webmessaging/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-document_messaging
It is also worth reading up on the security implications
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/HTML5_Security_Cheat_Sheet#Web_Messaging