Frameset

Noorhan Abbas

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Oct 15, 2008, 2:37:50 PM10/15/08

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Hello,

Did anybody use frames in Google Appengine before? It is a stupid question but I can display the Google App Engine page and I am unable to display my page in the frame!!!

Can anybody help me please,

Thanks,

Nora.

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Garrett Davis

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Oct 15, 2008, 4:24:09 PM10/15/08

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Yes, I configured Google App Engine to serve a frameset, and it would
properly serve up the individual pages in the frame ... at least on
the dev server. I haven't tried it on the real thing yet.

It's tricky to configure that 'app.yaml' file to do anything out-of-
the-ordinary,
but you can get it to work, with a little patience, and some
understanding of how the web server works.
Below is part of my trivial configuration to serve a frameset.
It assumes
(a) all the HTML bits are in a sub-directory named 'frameset';
(b) you have a working GAE application that can render a 'sidemenu'
for a menu in the 'MenuFrame' on the left side, and can
'serve_some_content' for the 'ContentFrame'.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Sample Frameset served by Google App Engine</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET ROWS="140px,*" COLS="190px,*"
FRAMEBORDER=NO FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0 MARGINWIDTH=2
MARGINHEIGHT=2 >
<FRAME SRC="/frameset/logo.html" NAME=LogoFrame>
<FRAME SRC="/frameset/title.html" NAME=TitleFrame>
<FRAME SRC="/sidemenu" NAME=MenuFrame>
<FRAME SRC="/serve_some_content" NAME=ContentFrame>
<NOFRAMES>Error: FRAMES aren't working. Check your browser settings.
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

and here's the contents of app.yaml:

application: frameset-test
version: 1
runtime: python
api_version: 1

handlers:

- url: /frameset
static_dir: frameset

- url: /.*
script: main.py

##########

Now .. just because we can do it, doesn't mean we should do it.
There are a lot of good reasons *not* to use framesets. Do you really
need a frameset?

Garrett Davis

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