How to embed iframes by bypassing X-Frame-Options and frame-ancestors directive

Blockers in iframe embedding

Today's internet makes it quite difficult to add some content inside an iframe on an existing website. This is done to prevent security risks like clickjacking

There are two main methods through which mordern websites achieve this are as follows

X-Frame-Options

Some websites specify X-Frame-Options in the response header when they want to have control over wher there content can be embedded inside iframe.

There are two possible values for X-Frame-Options:

1. DENY: Browser will not render page inside frame irrespective of the domain of parent page.
2. SAMEORIGIN: Browser will render page inside iframe only if page domain is same as domain of parent page.

frame-ancestors directive in CSP Header

Similar results can be achieved by setting the Content-Security-Policy to use frame-ancestors directive

Using the frame-ancestor directive in the CSP headers, one can allow multiple sites as parents for the iframe as Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors <source1> <source2>

Here, the source can be one of the following

1. URL : Specify parent's source
2. 'self' : Refers to the source from where the content is generated
3. 'none' : Indicates an empty set. This has the same effect as specifying X-Frame-Options as DENY

But what if we need to open sites in iframes for internal tooling, experimentation purposes or development & testing scenarios?

Remove Response Headers using Requestly

Requestly is a simple and 1-click solution using which you can bypass response headers and enable embedding sites in Iframe

Using the modify headers rule, we can easily add, modify and remove any Response Headers before it reaches the browser.

You only need to install the Requestly browser extension and set this rule

No further setup is required

You can also share this rule with your colleagues by creating a shared list like this one

Happy hacking