I am making a manual login flow with facebook without js sdk i have an iframe to get user approval it works fine and returns short-lived access token withn url but the problem when i want to get the url like iframe.src it returns the src i provided not redirected and which contains facebooks response.The question is how i can get redirected current url of an iframe . i tried iframe.location.href but it seems iframe doesnt have dom inside, and location is undefined.

I am making a manual login flow with facebook without js sdk i have an iframe to get user approval it works fine and returns short-lived access token withn url but the problem when i want to get the url like iframe.src it returns the src i provided not redirected and which contains facebooks response.The question is how i can get redirected current url of an iframe . i tried iframe.location.href but it seems iframe doesnt have dom inside, and location is undefined.

• javascript
• facebook
• iframe
• http-redirect

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• Why not using the facebook javascript SDK ? Also, share code on how are you doing it through an iframe. – coding_idiot Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 17:57
• that's a weird way of doing it.. – Nitesh Oswal Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 18:06
• Try document.referrer see stackoverflow./questions/3420004/… – Daniel Lizik Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 19:34
• nope it returns wrong value i tried already – nikoss Commented Aug 4, 2015 at 19:54

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I found out i can use frame.contentWindow.location after it returns to my site