Why does my iFrame say that I need to enable cookies to view it?

[MrAtoBandMe]

I have a website's page that displays the following error message when I load it into an iFrame.

"This site currently requires the use of cookies. Please enable them in your browser and return to this page."

The website's page will load fine if I paste the exact same URL into my address bar on my browser. This website is not my website and I can not change any content on the website. I am using Internet Explorer 9, and I have cookies enabled.

Will I be able to load this website into an iFrame?

[Old Pedant]

I would suspect that the site doesn't want to be loaded into an iframe and has detected your attempt to do so. I would guess that the message you are getting is bogus.

That is, there are possibly several conditions the site/page tests for--cookies, loaded into a frame, etc.--and if any one fails it gives a message. And it's simply giving you the wrong message.

I assume you aren't willing to share the URL, else we could confirm/disprove my guess. But you could debug this, you know. IE's debugger should be able to find the JS code that is causing the message.

[Logic Ali]

Originally Posted by MrAtoBandMe

"This site currently requires the use of cookies. Please enable them in your browser and return to this page."

The website's page will load fine if I paste the exact same URL into my address bar on my browser.

Perhaps IE9 is treating the iframed document as third-party content and disallowing cookies on that basis.

[Old Pedant]

Dunno... I haven't had that problem with IE before, but it might be some Option setting.

[MrAtoBandMe]

Originally Posted by Logic Ali

Perhaps IE9 is treating the iframed document as third-party content and disallowing cookies on that basis.

This is exactly what is was.

Once I changed my internet privacy settings, the iFrame loaded the page just fine.

Thanks.