How to call a javascript function from one frame to another in Chrome/Webkit

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Published on 2010-04-03T08:56:46Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 9:03 UTC
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I have developped an application that has a list of items in one frame; when one clicks on an item it does something in another frame (loads an image).

This used to work fine in all browsers, including Chrome 3; now it still works fine in FF but in recent versions of Chrome (I believe since 4) it throws this error:

Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL (...) from frame with URL (...). Domains, protocols and ports must match.

This is obviously a security "feature" but is it possible to get around it?

Here is a simple test:

index.html:

<html>
  <frameset>
    <frame src="left.html" name="left"/>
    <frame src="right.html" name="right"/>
    </frameset>
  </html>

left.html:

<html>
  <body>
    <a href="javascript:parent.right.test('hello');">click me</a>
    </body>
  </html>

right.html:

<html>
  <body>
    <script>
      function test(msg) {
        alert(msg);
        }
      </script>
    </body>
  </html>

The above works in FF 3.6 and Chrome 3 but in Chrome 5 it throws the above error...

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