Im beginning pretty low, starting with a database for a user of mine who is selling on ebay and wishes to manage their records away from ebay itself. (aka not use the Selling Manager) I have greybox in use for a quick view of each item once the user has created their new listing.
Currently the greybox pops up with http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=(ITEM ID) and works for a split second before redirecting to the pure ebay page. I was wondering if anyone knew how to stop it from reloading.
I understand security threats for purchasing via a connection running through another server, hence of course I understand the reasoning behind this layer of security, however the user wont be interacting with the page so much as quickly looking at it and then closing the overlay.
Assistance is appreciated, or an alternate way using AJAX or some kind of lightbox based pop up.
Thanks!
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Re: Viewing Item by ID
Posted:
Nov 20, 2009 12:04 PM
These eBay-moderated forums are intended to discuss the eBay APIs.
Your API usage is subject to a license agreement which just happens to contain the following condition:
3.1.5 Framed Content. Unless expressly permitted by eBay, you will not frame (divide the browser display area into separate sections, each of which constitutes a different web page) any web page served by eBay servers.
Your question belongs on an external 'eBay Hacking' forum.
You need to either open in a new browser window or create your own display based on GetItem (or similar) API call.
FYI: 'screen-scraping' in combination with the API is also against the rules.
--David
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Re: Viewing Item by ID
Posted:
Nov 20, 2009 1:03 PM
Well there we go, I apologize for not having seen that one, I'll give up on that then and perhaps find a different means of serving up information directly rather than using the ebay page itself.
