Javascript "opener" issues

hussey

Hey all
I'm really stuck here and have no idea on how to procede

In a form I have,
I have (this is a simple version btw) a text box with name "l_Street Address" in a form "myForm"
when I click a link, it opens a child window where the user types in the values (this gets validated against an external system)
and it returns the javascript

function pasteAddress()
{
	if (opener.g_streetAddr) {
	    opener.g_streetAddr.value = document.PopupForm.Address[0].value;
	  }
}

now in my parent window
I have a call

<form method="POST" name="myForm" action="">
<input type="text" name="l_Street Address" id="l_Street Address" value="" size="50">
<a href='Javascript:onClick = QASPopUp(document.myForm,"l_Street Address")'>Add Address</a>
</form>

and this calls a javascript function

<script type="text/javascript">
var qasWindow;
function QASPopUp(thisForm, addr) {
  g_streetAddr = thisForm.elements[i];
  qasWindow = window.open("2.html", "2Window", "toolbar=false, scrollbars, status, height=550, width=700");
}

Now this works fine locally (1.html can call 2.html in the same folder), but when I try on a server I get problems

the child window is in a domain XXXX.company.com
(so instead of 2.html I call "http://XXXX.company.com/file.html")
and the parent is in
YYYY.company.com:9081/file.html (instead of 1.html)

and the child window returns a "permission denied" javascript error.
is this because of the XXXX/YYYY difference or the port?

is there an easy way around this? ... or is it a different cause of the error?
I can't run my parent file in XXXX.company.com

I'm running it on localhost:9081 but in my hosts file have YYYY.company.com mapped to 127.0.0.1

bpmurray

This is a security feature - you can't jump around the web from a single JS. However, you can override the cross-domain issue using calls like (for firefox/netscape):

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege("UniversalBrowserRead");

I don't know if this is possible in IE.