Overcoming "Display forbidden by X-Frame-Options"

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I'm writing a tiny webpage whose purpose is to frame a few other pages, simply to consolidate them into a single browser window for ease of viewing. A few of the pages I'm trying to frame forbid being framed and throw a "Refused to display document because display forbidden by X-Frame-Options." error in Chrome. I understand that this is a security limitation (for good reason), and don't have access to change it.

Is there any alternative framing or non-framing method to display pages within a single window that won't get tripped up by the X-Frame-Options header?

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I had same issue when I tried embed moodle 2 in iframe, solution is Site administration ► Security ► HTTP security and check Allow frame embedding

FWIW:

We had a situation where we needed to kill our iFrame when this "breaker" code showed up. So, I used the PHP function get_headers($url); to check out the remote URL before showing it in an iFrame. For better performance, I cached the results to a file so I was not making a HTTP connection each time.

The only real answer, if you don't control the headers on your source you want in your iframe, is to proxy it. Have a server act as a client, receive the source, strip the problematic headers, add CORS if needed, and then ping your own server.

There is one other answer explaining how to write such a proxy. It isn't difficult, but I was sure someone had to have done this before. It was just difficult to find it, for some reason.

I finally did find some sources:

https://github.com/Rob--W/cors-anywhere/#documentation

^ preferred. If you need rare usage, I think you can just use his heroku app. Otherwise, it's code to run it yourself on your own server. Note sure what the limits are.

whateverorigin.org

^ second choice, but quite old. supposedly newer choice in python: https://github.com/Eiledon/alloworigin

then there's the third choice:

http://anyorigin.com/

Which seems to allow a little free usage, but will put you on a public shame list if you don't pay and use some unspecified amount, which you can only be removed from if you pay the fee...

Site owners use the X-Frame-Options response header so that their website cannot be opened in an Iframe. This helps to secure the users against clickjacking attack

There are a couple of approaches that you can try if you want to disable X-Frame-Options on your own machine.

Configuration at Server-Side

If you own the server or can work with the site owner then you can ask to set up a configuration to not send the Iframe buster response headers based on certain conditions. Conditions could be an additional request header or a parameter in the URL.

For example - The site owner can add an additional code to not send Iframe buster headers when the site is opened with ?in_debug_mode=true query param.

Use Browser extension like Requestly to remove response headers

You can use any browser extension like Requestly which allows you to modify the request & response headers. Here's a Requestly blog that explains how to embed sites in Iframe by bypassing Iframe buster headers.

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Configure a Pass-through Proxy and remove headers from it

If you need to bypass Iframe buster headers for multiple folks, then you can also configure a pass-through proxy that just removes the frame buster response headers and return back the response. This is however a lot complicated to write, set up. There are some other challenges like authentication etc with the sites opened in Iframe through a proxy but this approach can work for simple sites pretty well.

PS - I have built both solutions and have first-hand experience with both.

Try this thing, i dont think anyone suggested this in the Topic, this will resolve like 70% of your issue, for some other pages, you have to scrap, i have the full solution but not for public,

ADD below to your iframe

sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms"

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