document.domain issues and cross server scripting

[writeson]

Hi all,

I'm working on a project at the office that pulls together a bunch of
our websites into a portal thing and adds a better search engine. We're
also trying to accomadate newer browsers (Netscape 7.2, Firefox,
Safari) and are having some problems. The websites run on different
servers, all of which we control, so we are setting the document.domain
= "ourdomain.com"; in some javascript on ever page. However, we're
having problems. We use popup windows for some things, and sometimes
these popups want to 'populate' the parent frame window with a new page
as a result of a user selection on the popup. This works most of the
time, but not always. For instance, in Netscape 7.2 it just seems to
fail with an "access denied..." error in javascript. In Firefox and
Safari it opens a new window and populates that instead of populating
the original parent window. Can anyone point me at some definitive
information about the document.domain property and how to use it
effectively? And if anyone knows how to make Netscape and Firefox work
in the above situation, that would be great to!

Thanks in advance,
Doug

 

[Dietmar Meier]

Can anyone point me
at some definitive information about the document.domain property and
how to use it effectively?

Maybe you are only missing this information:

,-[ http://doc.rz.ifi.lmu.de/web/js/ClientReferenceJS13/document.htm ]-
| You can change domain only in a restricted way. Initially, domain
| contains the hostname of the Web server from which the document was
| loaded. You can set domain only to a domain suffix of itself. For
| example, a script from search.royalairways.com can't set its domain
| property to "search.royalairways". And a script from
| IWantYourMoney.com cannot set its domain to "royalairways.com".

ciao, dhgm