Opening external websites with a top bar containing "return to site" link.

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Opening external websites with a top bar containing "return to site" link.

In this thread user named Pekka gave me an advice to open external sites in a new window and provide a "return to site" link which would call "windows.close()" function. The problem is, that I don't know how to do such a "top bar" or something else containing the link on the site I open. Should I open the external site and write to its source? I know that for example sites providing proxies use such top structures. But how do they do it?

Thanks in advance for your answers, Michael

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There are a few options here... these are the top two suggestions I have.

Option 1, a kind of frame

You essentially load up a page that contains your header, and a big iframe that contains the other site. This is really easy to do, but if they have a "framebuster" script, it might get rid of your header when the page loads.

Option 2, server side proxy

Another option would be to get their HTML using a server side language, and modify it to include your top bar... it's a lot more work, but it will prevent framebusters from breaking out of your top bar.

Sohnee 2010-10-19 15:05:26

I'm afraid that the first option would have the same effect as my original idea (loading external sites into an iframe) - right? As for the second one, it would be cool to have it already written - if there's nothing like that ready in the Internet, I think that the amount of work would surpass the result. Do you know about any scripts that could do it?

kremuwa 2010-10-20 10:47:22

@kremuwa - what server-side language would you want it in?

Sohnee 2010-10-20 11:38:45

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