How does Facebook stop you from placing your site in an iFrame?

Question

The following code does not work. How does Facebook do it? Is there any way around this?

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
  <iframe src="http://www.facebook.com" width="500" height="500">
</iframe>
</body>
</html>

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Justin krause Jan 30 '12 at 23:12

2 answers

They do this to avoid fraud and flipping. This is impossible to do. This is a security feature that won't go anywhere ...

+1

Drew dahlman Jan 30 '12 at 23:15

The real baumann · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-30T23:20:29+0000

This is because they have <meta http-equiv="X-Frame-Options" content="deny" />at their source.