window.opener not working

Hi,

I have a generic search tool in one my application servers. I am trying to open this search tool from another application in a different server, using window.open method in a new window. On closing this new window, I am assigning some parent fields using window.opener property. But for some reasons, this is not working.

So, I tried putting this generic search tool in the same server that of my application and found working. Any ideas, why it is not working when they are in different server. Hope I made the clear.

cheers.

You can't control a page that is not on the same server as the one you are calling the code from. Think about it from a security perspective.

Thanks for your reply. That's a good point, which I haven't thought of. So, are there any workarounds or suggestions to get the values from the child window referring a different application server. Because, we want to have that generic search tool in one application server rather than having a copy of that in all application servers.

cheers.

How about keeping all the searching in the one window, and in the one application? Basically you can't do much cross-site stuff with client side code - keep it server-side.