This example to load a url in an iframe works. However when I change url to something like http://www.yahoo.com
the iframe doesn't load antyhing
Here is an example side by side.
In Network tab of developer tools for Chrome, I see that request to Yahoo was cancelled. In FF it doesn't give any errors, just doesn't return any content. IE9 gives a message that It cannot display this content.
This happens in Chrome, FF and IE9 (I haven't tested previous versions of IE).
That is because Yahoo itself prevents this from happening.
It has been noted here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9013722/476786
To see for yourself, try setting the source to http://www.google.com/ which won't work as well, but then try http://www.bbc.co.uk/ and that will work.
Possibly works as described here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2896705/476786 using X-FRAME-OPTIONS
If the site hosting the webpage forces the use of a secure HTTPS
connection, some browsers (chrome for sure) will require that all network resources use HTTPS
as well.
Basically if your site forces HTTPS
, try setting src="https://yahoo.com"
This won't solve OP's answer directly due to it being a limitation of Yahoo itself, but other people viewing this page might be experiencing this issue as a result of this (I was).