Parent reload: if the following number changes then the parent page (this yellow page) has reloaded:

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The goal:

The goal of this pattern is to obtain a reload of the iframe red content and only a reload of the yellow parent

Description:

  1. Click the link inside the iframe
  2. This click call a back.php page that only reload the content iframe whith a param "reload=true" in the querystring

    back.php:

    <?php
    Header ('Location: ifrmBoxLogin.php?reload=true');
?>

  3. In ifrmBoxLogin.php: if param "reload == 'true' then print a script thar reload the parent page:

    ifrmBoxLogin.php:

    <?php
if(isset($_GET['reload']))
	$reload=$_GET['reload'];

if($reload=='true'){
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
    top.location.reload(true);
</script>
<?php
}
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert('window.location.search = '+window.location.search);
</script>
</head>
<body style="background-color:red;">
<h1>Iframe content</h1>
<a href="back.php">Submit this then come back here and reload the yellow parent page</a>
</body></html>

  4. the desired result: after iframe content will reload, it would reload the parent yellow page. This work fine in all browsers except firefox latest version.

The issue:

This pattern works fine in all browsers except Mozilla Firefox (reload cause a infinite loop)

It seem that firefox ignore the src="ifrmBoxLogin.php?reload=false" iframe param in the parent yellow page (see the alert: always reload is equal to 'true' only in firefox)

Please note that in very older Firefox version (before 2.0 maybe - i don't remember sorry) this script works fine

(sorry for my bad english)