Hello,
I am virtual pilot with Air Child airline.
When I try to edit my simbrief flight plan from their web page I get these screens.
Could you, please, help me?
Hi, for security reasons I don’t think it is possible to embed SimBrief (and by extension the Navigraph login page) inside of another website, the way your VA is attempting to do. This can lead to potential security holes where third-party websites could potentially read the information you’re sending when signing in to your Navigraph account.
This may have worked in the past, but web standards are continuously being updated to improve security for user across the internet. Web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox are becoming increasingly more strict about this sort of thing, and it looks like it might be mostly blocked now.
There are alternative ways to implement this, for example your VA could open the SimBrief app in a new tab, rather than trying to embed it. Please reach out to them to report this issue, they will likely need to update their implementation.
Best regards,
Hi Derek,
Sorry but I think there is a misunderstanding here, that website uses SimBrief API to generate flight plans as like most of us, and at the result page there is an edit button, which again uses your officially provided documentation to generate a link (with the Static ID logic) to the user’s latest ofp and it loads up the page in a modal window (like an iframe, which is not much different from opening a new tab).
As you know, login requirements do apply for both the api ofp generation and getting the last generated ofp according to your documentation. So how this can be a security problem or something blocked by security reasons of the browser ?
I had similar problems in the past, even for logging in to Navigraph services and had to clean up my browser cache several times to bypass login / authentication errors. And I assume this is related to something in communication between navigraph servers and the pilot’s browser rather than an implementation issue the VA needs to handle.
Safe flights,
— Edit; Example screenshot from a working page;
- At background you can see the api generated ofp
- And the edit window on top of it (which is a modal window, loading up simbrief dispatch page with the same ofp by static id)
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