Displaying content from one’s personal web space under a prettier domain name, if you don’t want to pay for proper hosting. (Many DNS providers provide the automatic frame-and-redirect service for cheaper than proper hosting would be.) Technically, it’s super-lame, but there’s no reason to suspect a site of tomfoolery just because they are using this technique. And there’s no reason to assume that Stoid’s vendor disallows it.
Lots of legitimate reasons for running other sites’ content within the frame of your site. Heck, even though ads aren’t framed, they are all served up from other URLs. Is that dubious? If you want more than just simple ads, you have to go to using frames.
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I run a service that allows people to collect email addresses on their site and send out mass HTML emails (like Constant Contact). We give instructions to our users to be able to configure a form that’s hosted on our server, and frame it within their site for seamless integration. People can sign up for their newsletter and never leave their site, but the customer doesn’t have to manage any of the form’s code.
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My real estate client gets a service from the local MLS that is a web-based property search application. The MLS serves up all of the forms and data, we just frame the search form inside of the client’s site.
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One of my manufacturing clients keeps all of their technical data offsite. The offsite data mangager has the data available as Web pages. Every page on my client’s site has an iframe containing a Web page with all of the technical data for the product on the page. The page in the iframe allows for searching, sorting, paging, etc. The data manager’s URL is totally obscured.
I can imagine that porn sites do a ton of affiliate work. They give you an affiliate ID, you put a signup box on your site, your visitors now have access to a ton more porn. Affiliate programs go to great lengths to allow their affiliates use of data while obscuring the original source. It makes the affiliate happy because they get the credit, and it makes the owner happy because their stuff gets marketed in a different way to a different audience and the owner gets new customers for a tiny (affiliate) fee. So someone running a sheep porn site can have a link that says “You like our sheep? Click here for access to pigs!” and use all of the pig porn from a different site without having the data on their site, or having the users leave their site.
Thank you!
This is General Questions. It is unacceptable to think you are entitled to treat everything I say or do around here as an invitation demand that I explain myself to the satisfaction of anyone who asks.
I asked for help with HTML. You are in no way obliged to help me and if you lack the imagination to think of a non-nefarious reason for my question, then you should definitely not help me.
I owe you nothing, but I think you absolutely do owe me the benefit of the doubt, since I have done absolutely nothing on earth to lead you think I intend to do anything wrong, (quite the opposite) and you owe me the courtesy that anyone else who asks a perfectly normal question gets, which is to not be given the third degree about the purpose of my question.
Mods: I’ve had my question answered, and this is becoming inappropriate. Please close the thread.