Question

I have a C# WinForms application and a client has requested to have a streaming CNN video player integrated in to it. CNN uses a flash player located at http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html?stream=stream1

However if I embed a WebBrowser object and point it at the URL, the web site wants to fire a popup outside of my WebBrowser control. If I disable it (using the NewWindow event handlers), it throws up a javascript alert message. If I allow it, it opens a new IE instance outside of my application withe CNN video in it.

The only thought I had was to recreate the HTML and override the javascript settings for their flash object (http://z.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/CNNLive/2.1.6.2/assets/scripts/liveplayersettings.js) in order to turn off the popup flags.

Anyone have thoughts on a way to accomplish showing the site while doing so inside of the application?

Answer 1

Ended up hacking the Javascript that CNN uses, dunno how long it’ll last but this was the quickest way to accomplish what I wanted without all the added overhead of the other solutions.

    protected void webBrowser_ProgressChanged(object sender, WebBrowserProgressChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (webBrowser.ReadyState == WebBrowserReadyState.Complete && DefaultPage == BrowserPage.CNN)
        {
            HtmlElement head = webBrowser.Document.GetElementsByTagName("head")[0];
            HtmlElement scriptElement = webBrowser.Document.CreateElement("script");
            IHTMLScriptElement element = (IHTMLScriptElement)scriptElement.DomElement;
            string popupBlocker = "if(typeof settings != 'undefined') { settings.FORCE_POPUP = false; }";
            element.text = popupBlocker;
            head.AppendChild(scriptElement);
        }
    }