Unable to access an iframe's contents

Question

I'm trying to determine if AIR for the desktop (for HTML/JS development) can allow access to the document of an iframe from another domain.  For example, I need to load an iframe for a remote site, and listen for submit events from that iframe and capture the contents.  I've been working with the sandboxRoot/documentRoot attributes for iframes, as well as tried parent/child bridge setups.  But while I can see the iframe element, I can never access its document.  It's not clear to me from the documentation if this is even possible.  Any pointers are greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Bill

Answer 1

I'm also working on the same issue.
Interestingly, I'm sure I found a solution to this issue a way-back-when, when first playing with AIR/js, but I remember it being slightly convoluted and for the life of me can no longer remember exactly how I solved it. I believe it had to do with creating a Native window and setting the html content on that directly, and then having the remote sandbox set up properly to allow the reading of the page's html (the remote page) correctly. In theory the same shoud work for using an iframe embedded into a page, but maybe not.
I'm wanting to inject some javascript into the page I'm viewing locally, to allow the manipulation of the DOM without having to modify the remote page beforehand.
Here's an article where this seems to be solved for an AS3/Flex AIR project:
http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Injecting_the_jQuery_library_into_a_page_loaded_in-19278.h tml
and the (probably) relevant AIR docs page:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/html/dev/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118666ade46-7f08.html
Hope this helps. Will shout if I manage to figure it out properly again.
Cheers,
-Chris