Can’t load external Website

Hoi @ab2u,

Have you tried other website pages then google.nl?

You cannot display any website inside another website. Reason being that some websites send an instruction that prevents the browser from displaying that site within another site. This is the reason you won’t be able to show the web page https://www.google.nl within a Foyer external page slide.

If you have tried other pages, preferably ones that are meant to be embeded on other websites, and it still doesn’t work.. could you help me troubleshoot this for you by sending over as much info as possible?

– What URLs did you try on the external page slide?
– What browser are you using and what version?
– Have you tried other browsers, which ones and did it work or not?

Thanks!

I’ve got the same problem trying to load ad.nl or buienradar.nl. (for example: https://www.buienradar.nl/nederland/neerslag/zoom/3uurs?lat=52.110&lon=5.180 result on https://www.fsfysio.nl/?foyer_slide=1196

is there also an option to use embedded parts of a site or an RSS feed or the latest facebook posts?

Hi @jasperbier,

Both ad.nl and buienradar.nl websites block being displayed within other pages (such as a Foyer slide). This is probably because they want full control over how their website content is displayed.

The best way forward is to find the officially supported embed option per website.

For Buienradar for example you can find them here:
https://www.buienradar.nl/overbuienradar/gratis-weerdata
Or build a page that you can embed here:
https://gadgets.buienradar.nl/gadget/zoommap

At the moment Foyer has no features to embed parts of a site (except for the External Webpage slide format of course, to embed a full page). And no RSS feed or Facebook specific slide formats.

You could however build a social media wall (a combination of social media and RSS content merged together on a single page) using a service. Eg. https://walls.io/ or search Google for ‘build social media wall’. You will be able to add the page you build with their tools to a Foyer slide using the Extern Webpage slide format!

Hope this helps!

Technical stuff for those interested:
If you run into webpages that won’t work on Foyer slides, you could check your browser’s Developer Tools / Console to see why the page is blocked. Eg. this message is shown in Chrome when viewing mentioned slide, indicating that Buienradar denies being displayed within a slide:

Refused to display 'https://www.buienradar.nl/' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'deny'.

Best,
Menno