I have an issue on my website which is on CodeIgniter.
All links are making a duplicate copy of each with #! included in URL
for example
https://www.example.com/port-of-portsmouth
link to a page on my website which is duplicated like the below link
https://www.example.com/port-of-portsmouth#!
Both links have the same page content. How to get rid of this error to avoid content duplication
How to get rid of this error to avoid content duplication
You can't
Because # is used as a fragment identifier. For an example, if the URL is https://example.com/#data this means that open the example.com and jump to a specific section of the page with id"data"
See this URL, https://jestjs.io/docs/en/cli.html#cache
When you open the page, it jumps to cache section.
So, basically, your content is not duplicated, it's just opening the same page and then browser tries to navigate to id !, which might not be there and hence nothing special happens.
I have my pages categorized as below....
Main index.html is in the root, so this displays when the domain is entered into a browser.
May pages are categorized as below...
/Pages/Automotive/Ford/Mustang/*.html
/Pages/Automotive/Chevy/Camaro/*.html
/Pages/Automotive/Dodge/Charger/*.html
etc...
What I am looking for is a way to hide the subfolders from the url in the browser..
So, if a link, shortcut, or page is at the following:
/Pages/Automotive/Ford/Mustang/Main.html
The following is displayed in the url status bar on the browser...
/Ford/Mustang/Main.html
or even
/Mustang/Main.html
Basically masking the /Pages/Automotive/ Sub Directories.
And, if a this is entered in the browser:
/Ford/Mustang/Main.html
Then, the original page is still displayed at
/Pages/Automotive/Ford/Mustang/Main.html
Is this doable? If so how, I have looked into .htaccess, but I haven't found what I need..
I am also using 1and1 as my hosting company..
I am building a website which calls for a page selector on product search results, the page selector currently adds a forward slash and a number (representing the page) to the end of the current URL.
e.g. If I am browsing Washing Machines on "/laundry/Washing-Machines" and I click page 2 on the selector it takes me to "/laundry/Washing-Machines/2" and page 2 loads, this is working fine.
Now, the problem I am having...
I have a form in the sidebar where the user can filter Range Cooker search results by brand, fuel type, size and colour. The form gathers the products from the database that meet the search criteria, and displays the results along side the page selector.
If I leave the form values as default and submit the form I am presented with the results on "/cooking/Range-Cookers/Search?brand=0&type=0&size=0&colour=0" but when I click page 2 on the selector I am taken to "cooking/Range-Cookers/2" which presents me with a 404. If I add "&page=2" to the end of the original URL I am presented with page 2.
Since the page selector is a php include and works fine for every product except the results from my Range Cooker form, I would rather find a solution that leaves the selector php intact.
Is there any way I can add a redirect to .htaccess which would take a link from my page selector e.g. "cooking/Range-Cookers/5" and correctly apply it to the current URL with all form variables intact e.g. "cooking/Range-Cookers/Search?brand=1&type=2&size=0&colour=0&page=5"?
I have experience in HTML, CSS and PHP, but I am new to editing .htaccess and would appreciate any insight into how I can accomplish this. Thanks.
You cannot do this with .htaccess, because the information is not available, when the request hits Apache, or .htaccess for that matter.
When you click the link for page 2, the client requests the URL in the associated href attribute. It doesn't provide any other information available on the current page. If you want this information transmitted, you must modify the link for page 2 from
cooking/Range-Cookers/2
to
cooking/Range-Cookers/Search?brand=1&type=2&size=0&colour=0&page=2
when you deliver the page to the client. Same goes for any other information you need for following pages.
I have a problem with the following HTML:
<a href="javascript:document.formName.submit();" target="iframe">
Where formName is the name of a form inside the iframe. I would like the browser to navigate to the page "javascript:..." in the iframe, so it executes the javascript on the current page in the iframe. My problem is that the browser will attempt to execute the function and use the returned result as the url. Of course there is no form to submit on the current page, so I just get an error.
Cross domain iframes are no fly zones, you won't be able to do anything with or to the DOM inside of a frame on a different domain. Even if the user clicked the submit button inside the frame, your page would not be able to get the new url back out of the frame.
In this case, you can do it by reaching inside the iframe:
<a href="javascript:window.frames[N].contentDocument.FORMNAME.submit()">
(that may not be exactly the right incantation). In general, you should do this with an onclick handler for the hyperlink, that invokes a function defined by the iframe's document.
EDIT: There is NO WAY to make this work cross-domain. It's a violation of the browser's security policies.
How do you prevent Firefox and Safari from caching iframe content?
I have a simple webpage with an iframe to a page on a different site. Both the outer page and the inner page have HTTP response headers to prevent caching. When I click the "back" button in the browser, the outer page works properly, but no matter what, the browser always retrieves a cache of the iframed page. IE works just fine, but Firefox and Safari are giving me trouble.
My webpage looks something like this:
<html>
<head><!-- stuff --></head>
<body>
<!-- stuff -->
<iframe src="webpage2.html?var=xxx" />
<!-- stuff -->
</body>
</html>
The var variable always changes. Although the URL of the iframe has changed (and thus, the browser should be making a new request to that page), the browser just fetches the cached content.
I've examined the HTTP requests and responses going back and forth, and I noticed that even if the outer page contains <iframe src="webpage2.html?var=222" />, the browser will still fetch webpage2.html?var=111.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Changing iframe URL with random var value
Adding Expires, Cache-Control, and Pragma headers to outer webpage
Adding Expires, Cache-Control, and Pragma headers to inner webpage
I'm unable to do any JavaScript tricks because I'm blocked by the same-origin policy.
I'm running out of ideas. Does anyone know how to stop the browser from caching the iframed content?
Update
I installed Fiddler2 as Daniel suggested to perform another test, and unfortunately, I am still getting the same results.
This is the test I performed:
Outer page generates random number using Math.random() in JSP.
Outer page displays a random number on the webpage.
Outer page calls iframe, passing in a random number.
Inner page displays a random number.
With this test, I'm able to see exactly which pages are updating, and which pages are cached.
Visual Test
For a quick test, I load the page, navigate to another page, and then press "back." Here are the results:
Original Page:
Outer Page: 0.21300034290246206
Inner Page: 0.21300034290246206
Leaving page, then hitting back:
Outer page: 0.4470929019483644
Inner page: 0.21300034290246206
This shows that the inner page is being cached, even though the outer page is calling it with a different GET parameter in the URL. For some reason, the browser is ignoring the fact that the iframe is requesting a new URL; it simply loads the old one.
Fiddler Test
Sure enough, Fiddler confirms the same thing.
(I load the page.)
Outer page is called. HTML:
0.21300034290246206
<iframe src="http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206" />
http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206 is called.
(I navigate away from the page and then hit back.)
Outer page is called. HTML:
0.4470929019483644
<iframe src="http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.4470929019483644" />
http://ipv4.fiddler:1416/page1.aspx?var=0.21300034290246206 is called.
Well, from this test, it looks as though the web browser isn't caching the page, but it's caching the URL of the iframe and then making a new request on that cached URL. However, I'm still stumped as to how to solve this issue.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to stop the web browser from caching iframe URLs?
This is a bug in Firefox:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356558
Try this workaround:
<iframe src="webpage2.html?var=xxx" id="theframe"></iframe>
<script>
var _theframe = document.getElementById("theframe");
_theframe.contentWindow.location.href = _theframe.src;
</script>
I have been able to work around this bug by setting a unique name attribute on the iframe - for whatever reason, this seems to bust the cache. You can use whatever dynamic data you have as the name attribute - or simply the current ms or ns time in whatever templating language you're using. This is a nicer solution than those above because it does not directly require JS.
In my particular case, the iframe is being built via JS (but you could do the same via PHP, Ruby, whatever), so I simply use Date.now():
return '<iframe src="' + src + '" name="' + Date.now() + '" />';
This fixes the bug in my testing; probably because the window.name in the inner window changes.
As you said, the issue here is not iframe content caching, but iframe url caching.
As of September 2018, it seems the issue still occurs in Chrome but not in Firefox.
I've tried many things (adding a changing GET parameter, clearing the iframe url in onbeforeunload, detecting a "reload from cache" using a cookie, setting up various response headers) and here are the only two solutions that worked from me:
1- Easy way: create your iframe dynamically from javascript
For example:
const iframe = document.createElement('iframe')
iframe.id = ...
...
iframe.src = myIFrameUrl
document.body.appendChild(iframe)
2- Convoluted way
Server-side, as explained here, disable content caching for the content you serve for the iframe OR for the parent page (either will do).
AND
Set the iframe url from javascript with an additional changing search param, like this:
const url = myIFrameUrl + '?timestamp=' + new Date().getTime()
document.getElementById('my-iframe-id').src = url
(simplified version, beware of other search params)
After trying everything else (except using a proxy for the iframe content), I found a way to prevent iframe content caching, from the same domain:
Use .htaccess and a rewrite rule and change the iframe src attribute.
RewriteRule test/([0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+).html$ /test/index.php?idEntity=$1&token=$2 [QSA]
The way I use this is that the iframe's URL end up looking this way: example.com/test/54/e3116491e90e05700880bf8b269a8cc7.html
Where [token] is a randomly generated value. This URL prevents iframe caching since the token is never the same, and the iframe thinks it's a totally different webpage since a single refresh loads a totally different URL :
example.com/test/54/e3116491e90e05700880bf8b269a8cc7.html
example.com/test/54/d2cc21be7cdcb5a1f989272706de1913.html
both lead to the same page.
You can access your hidden url parameters with $_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]
To get the iframe to always load fresh content, add the current Unix timestamp to the end of the GET parameters. The browser then sees it as a 'different' request and will seek new content.
In Javascript, it might look like:
frames['my_iframe'].location.href='load_iframe_content.php?group_ID=' + group_ID + '×tamp=' + timestamp;
I found this problem in the latest Chrome as well as the latest Safari on the Mac OS X as of Mar 17, 2016. None of the fixes above worked for me, including assigning src to empty and then back to some site, or adding in some randomly-named "name" parameter, or adding in a random number on the end of the URL after the hash, or assigning the content window href to the src after assigning the src.
In my case, it was because I was using Javascript to update the IFRAME, and only switching the hash in the URL.
The workaround in my case was that I created an interim URL that had a 0 second meta redirect to that other page. It happens so fast that I hardly notice the screen flash. Plus, I made the background color of the interim page the same as the other page, and so you notice it even less.
It is a bug in Firefox 3.5.
Have a look..
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279048
I set iframe src attribute later in my app. To get rid of the cached content inside iframe at the start of the application I simply do:
myIframe.src = "";
... somewhere in the beginning of js code (for instance in jquery $() handler)
Thanks to
http://www.freshsupercool.com/2008/07/10/firefox-caching-iframe-data/
I also had this problem in 2016 with iOS Safari. What seemed to work for me was
giving a GET-parameter to the iframe src and a value for it like this
<iframe width="60%" src="../other/url?cachebust=1" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I also met this issue, after trying different browsers, and a ton of trial and error, I came up with this solution, which works well in my case:
import { defineComponent } from 'vue'
import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid'
export default defineComponent({
setup() {
return () => (
// append a uuid after `?` to prevent browsers from caching it
<iframe src={`https://www.example.com?${uuid()}`} frameborder='0' />
)
},
})
If you want to get really crazy you could implement the page name as a dynamic url that always resolves to the same page, rather than the querystring option?
Assuming you're in an office, check whether there's any caching going on at a network level. Believe me, it's a possibility. Your IT folks will be able to tell you if there's any network infrastructure around HTTP caching, although since this only happens for the iframe it's unlikely.
Have you installed Fiddler2?
It will let you see exactly what is being requested, what is being sent back, etc. It doesn't sound plausible that the browser would really hit its cache for different URLs.
Make the URL of the iframe point to a page on your site which acts as a proxy to retrieve and return the actual contents of the iframe. Now you are no longer bound by the same-origin policy (EDIT: does not prevent the iframe caching issue).