Under what conditions can I access the HTML-DOM of a child IFrame from the hosting website?

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Published on 2010-05-27T20:34:49Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 20:41 UTC
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What can cause my website to not have access to a child IFrame's DOM via Javascript? Are there cross-domain restrictions in place? Does HTTPS play a role?

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