I put together a simple little program for my own personal use in VB2010 that uses an embedded webbrowser control, that allows me to click through pre-selected websites one at a time. It's something I have been using for years with no problem.
Apparently one of the websites which contains a number of pages that I view daily has switched to HTTPS format, and the webbrowser control just says The website cannot display the page. None of the other pages are secure, so I am assuming that this is what's causing the problem. The pages will come up fine on a regular web browser, like IE or Firefox; just not in my embedded web browser.
A Google search for this problem has turned up nothing.
The emulation mode is set to IE11 edge mode through the registry key, but I have also tried setting it for standard IE11, with no change.
What needs to be done to allow secure pages for this simple application?
Thanks!
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I am fiddling with Blazor WebAssembly to make a PoC and try to convince some people to start using it to develop Intranet web apps. However, our standard browser for Intranet content is IE11. Since Blazor WebAssembly is not supported in IE11, it may as well be the best thing in the world but I believe we will not get off to a good start by saying "This does not run in IE11, so people must use Edge for this particular app".
In order to minimize this issue, I was wondering how to make some URLs open on Edge. I know this is possible because if I paste a Teams meeting URL onto IE11, the page is not rendered and a new Edge window opens up automatically instead. Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish this?
From your description, it seems that you want to open an Edge window from IE 11 browser and view the website, right?
In this scenario, I think you could try to use the URL Scheme: microsoft-edge:{website url}. Then, it could open the Edge browser from IE 11 browser.
Sample code as below:
link
[Note] If you are viewing the website on IOS , the URL scheme should like this: microsoft-edge-http:// or microsoft-edge-https://.
The website is developed in WordPress. It looks perfect on chrom/Firefox browsers but its not looking perfect on safari browser
Can someone help to understand what it the issue and how can i fix it?
If Safari doesn't load a page or webpage items are missing
Check Safari extensions, or try removing cookies, cache, and other website data if a webpage or site doesn't load on your Mac.
Use the steps in this article if this happens in Safari on your Mac:
You can’t log in to a secure website.
A webpage repeatedly reloads or redirects.
A message on a webpage tells you to remove or reset cookies.
Some images, videos, or other items aren't displayed on a webpage, but other page elements load.
Check Parental Controls
If you're logged into a user account that is restricted by Parental Controls or other web filtering software, some pages or page elements might not load if those sites aren't allowed. For example, embedded videos might not display if they're hosted on a site other than the one you're viewing.
Check with your administrator to see if you can get access to the site that you're trying to view.
Check Safari extensions
Some Safari extensions that block ads or other website content can prevent some page elements from displaying. You can temporarily turn off extensions, then re-load the page to see if this is the issue.
Choose Safari > Preferences.
Click Extensions.
Select an extension, then deselect the checkbox "Enable… extension." Repeat this step for every extension that's currently installed.
Reload the page by choosing Choose View > Reload in Safari. If the webpage loads correctly, one or more extensions was blocking the content from loading. Re-enable an extension, then reload the page again to determine which extension is blocking the content you want to view.
If the website still doesn't load with all of your extensions disabled, try the next steps in this article.
If Safari doesn't load pages from a specific site
If only one webpage or website isn't working, you can remove data related to that site to see if it fixes the issue. Use these steps to remove cookies, cache, and other data stored by Safari for a specific site:
Choose Safari > Preferences.
Click the Privacy icon.
Click the Details button.
Search for the name or domain of the website whose data you want to remove.
In the results list, click the domain (like example.com) that has data you want to remove.
Click Remove.
When you're finished, click Done and close the preferences window.
remove history, cookies, cache, website data, for a specific site
If you used the Private Browsing feature of Safari when visiting a website, you might not see the site listed here.
If Safari doesn't load pages from multiple sites
In OS X Yosemite, you can delete website data for the past hour, or past few days if websites or pages stopped loading recently.
Choose History > Clear History and Website Data.
In the sheet that appears, choose the range of data you want to remove from the Clear pop-up menu.
Click Clear History.
remove history, cookies, cache, website data
If you want to remove website data for all of the sites and pages you've ever visited, choose "all history" from the Clear pop-up menu. The option to Remove All Website Data in the Privacy pane of Safari preferences does this, too. These options also reset your browsing history and Top Sites.
I was already using Firebase for authentication for other (related) projects and would like to stick with it.
Using Firebase with a Word add-in seems challenging. On Windows you're stuck with IE11 and on Mac (crucial for me) the browser used to load a taskpane is webkit, not the default browser.
I can get authentication on Windows to work just fine if I use signInWithRedirect (Google and Facebook).
But this won't work on Mac. Using signInWithRedirect opens a new tab in the default browser, which doesn't share cookies/data with the webkit browser the add-in actually uses.
When I switch to signInWithPopup, I get:
There is no application set to open the URL about:invalid%23zClosurez.
On Windows I get a popup IE11 window, for a split second, and it contains about:invalid%23zClosurez for a URL.
I have appdomains called out in my add-in XML manifest:
<AppDomains>
<AppDomain>https://writeitwithme-a114a.firebaseapp.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.firebaseapp.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.googleapis.com</AppDomain>
<AppDomain>https://www.facebook.com</AppDomain>
</AppDomains>
Any help appreciated. Worst case I drop to using manual registration, via Firebase, for Mac, but seems unfortunate to have to give up.
Just documenting for anyone finding this later.
I couldn't figure out how to use Firebase social login when creating an add-in for Mac. Every authentication window opened in the default browser, not the webkit engine used by Word on Mac. Sticking with manual login worked.
IE11 is always finicky when using localhost. I test elsewhere, then push files live and then try IE11 and social + manual login (via popup) works just fine.
I found the following resources from Microsoft docs that made this easier for me:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/develop/dialog-api-in-office-add-ins
Basically you need to make a call to open up a dialogue box:
Office
.context
.UI
.displayDialogAsync(
'https://myDomain/myDialog.html',
{height: 30, width: 20, displayInIframe: true}
);
Then you can make your own page that does a login flow and passes a message (likely a credential of some kind) back to your plugin via the messageParent method:
Office.context.ui.messageParent(googleProfile);
From there you can do the following to sign in with the credential provided in your add-in:
firebase.auth().signInWithCredential(credential)
Also, be very careful with how you construct the URL of the dialogue box. I lost hours not knowing that the _host_Info param from the origin URL would mess stuff up (I was constructing my new URL from the origin URL). Figured it out in this github issue: https://github.com/OfficeDev/office-js/issues/378
I have a facebook iframe app I'm trying to test using a WebBrowser Control on a form in VB.NET 2010. Whenever I try to access the WebBrowser.Document.Window.Frames frame object on a document where my app is showing in the broswer, I get an Access Denined exception. Reading around on the web, I see people saying that this is to keep scripts in a document from accessing content in iframes that are pulling content from another domain, as per 'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533028.aspx', for security reasons.
While I totally understand why this is done for the general public, how can I disable it on my machine so that I can run these tests? I can't properly test my app without doing it in the facebook iframe and using the WebBrowser control is the only way I know to do this test programmatically.
Any ideas? I'm on windows server 2003 and ie8, .net4.0, if that helps. I own the domain where the app is, and its in AS.NET MVC2, so if there's anything I can do to the web code to enable this??? I also removed the Internet Explorer ENhanced Security COnfiguaration component, but that didn't help.
Thanks,
Philip
Have you tried changing your Internet Explorer settings to enable cross domain scripting?
I believe the VB.Net Web Browser control inherits settings from the local copy of IE.
Try this:
From Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options from the Tools menu.
On the Security tab of the Internet Options dialog box, select the Local Intranet Web Content Zone and then click Custom Level.
Locate the Miscellaneous/Access Data Sources Across Domains setting, and then select Enable, as shown in Figure 2.
Click OK, and then click Yes to the warning dialog box that appears.
Click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box.
Also try adding the Facebook https Url into your trusted sites.
As a last resort disable Native XMLHttp in IE and attempt to revert back to an older version of the XMLHttp object.
I have a Windows forms application written in VB.NET where I host multiple WebBrowser controls in the same window. The problem I'm having is that the session for each WebBrowser control seem to get "crossed" when making asynchronous requests, such as when loading images. For instance, I have WebBrowser1 that loads an HTML document and WebBrowser2 that loads another HTML document. WebBrowser1 hosts an image that's served up by an ASHX page and is dependent on the browser session. The problem is that when the request is made for the image in WebBrowser1, the server actually receives the session ID from WebBrowser2. Is there a way to force each WebBrowser control to have a unique session?
The WebBrowser control is essentially just an embedded version of IE. If you launch the regular IE, log into a website, then launch a second copy of IE and visit the website you'll find yourself already logged in with the second instance because IE shares cookies across instances. The same is true of the WebBrowser control. If fact, if you log into a website with IE and then have the WebBrowser control go there you'll find that its been logged in, too, since the cookies are all shared.
So basically, AFAIK, you can't do what you want.