Passing HTML POST data to embedded <iframe>s

Friday 10 August 2007 9:23:48 am

Hello!
I've got a site with quite a lot of external pages embedded into my site. Therefore I've created a content class "external_page" with attributes "title" and "url", which are embedded in my site with following (pseudo-) code

<h1>{$node.title}</h1>
<iframes src="{$node.url}" name="external_frame">

This solution allows me to nicely wrap my site's design around the external_pages. However, I now have to pass HTML POST data from my own pages down to embedded pages. I tried to achieve this by specifying the target-parameter of the HTML form-tag. E.g. on my frontpage I've got a search box

<form action="http://www.mysite.com/other_url" target="external_frame" method="post">
...<input>...
</form>

which calls "other_url" on my site with the embedded iframe I want to pass my data to.

However, it does not work, no data is passed down to the iframe. Sadly I'm also limited to method="post", GET-Parameters are all ignored.

Any hints available?

Thanks in advance,
Reinhard