meta refresh in ie8 opens in new window

[praveenhotha]

We have an iframe in our page which does a meta refresh to a url after validation, in all other browsers the url passed opens in  the same iframe, but in IE 8 it also opens a new window with the provided url.

What could be the issue?

Thanks in advance.

Praveen

 

[cssfreakie]

i would not use iframes. Anyway, google tells me this: http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-117626.html

 

keywords,  refresh iframe in current window

[praveenhotha]

thanks for the link,

How else can this be implemented, primarily we need to load an external application in the page. I thought iframe is the best option.

[cssfreakie]

hmm, you could try the php include(); function.

otherwise you need to stick with iframes, but than you need javascript to refresh it.

[praveenhotha]

but javascript approach would bring in the back button/page refresh issues,

We are trying to provide a platform for users to host their apps. The problem occurs only in IE 8, when we try to authorize and redirect him back to the url he provided.

 

[nogray]

This could be a security zone conflict in your browser setting. For example, if you have a page on your PC, or a trusted security zone and you click on a link to a third part site or try to open a third party site that is in different security zone (e.g. default zone), IE will open it in a new window.