IE11 Security Problems With Custom Certificate

Mar 25, 2015

Andreas Larsson
By Andreas Larsson

Hello,

I am having trouble correctly displaying a course completion Certificate in IE11. (I'm using the method described here.) After course completion the student can press a button to get a custom certificate with his/her name on it. The button triggers the following piece of JavaScript:

var newWin=window.open("report.html", "Kursintyg");

The report.html certificate then displays the name variables like so:

<script>
var player=window.opener.GetPlayer();
var fornamn=player.GetVar("Förnamn").replace(/(\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '');
var efternamn=player.GetVar("Efternamn").replace(/(\r\n|\r|\n)/g, '');
</script>
<script>document.write(""+fornamn+" "+efternamn+"");</script>

This works perfect seemingly everywhere EXCEPT when running the Flash version on IE11 at my office (the HTML5 version is working fine). The certificate only reads "undefined" "undefined".

I'm guessing it has to do with some corporate security policy because the variables show up all right on my home computer running IE11. As well as in Firefox and Chrome. Any suggestion what can be done? I need to get it to work on similar corporate computers, because that's the environment where the course is going to be used. I've worked on this all day and I'm getting desperate...

Thanks.

3 Replies
Andreas Larsson
9 years ago03/25/15 at 2:12 pm (UTC)

I've tried changing the trigger script to

var player=GetPlayer();
fnamn = player.GetVar("Förnamn");
enamn = player.GetVar("Efternamn");
window.open("report.html?fn="+ fnamn +"&en="+ enamn ,"Kursintyg");

to see if the variables get passed on to the certificate all right that way (a dirty method, I know), but IE11 refuses to run the script. It seems it doesn't like the questionmark inside the window.open command.

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