What is iframe and why CMS software, Signage Manager and vSignage couldn't an inline frame?

Modified on Wed, 9 Jan, 2019 at 3:16 AM

Definition and Usage

The <iframe> tag specifies an inline frame.


Example

An inline frame is marked up as follows:

<iframe src="https://www.w3schools.com"></iframe>


An inline frame is used to embed another document within the current HTML document.


Browser Support




Why Signage Manager and vSignage couldn't an inline frame?


1. If you have set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'sameorigin', in your web pages may not display when you publish the web page to a screen  


2. If you try to play it directly, you will see iFrame forbidden message.



X-Frame-Options is a security header to prevent a well-known vulnerability called Clickjacking. This instruct browser not to open a web page in a frame or iframe based on the configuration.

You can inject HTTP response header by configuring a web server or network devices. The following guide should help you.

To configure in Apache HTTP, Nginx, F5, WordPress.

 






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