How do I Embed Something?

Let's say the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNV9FEKi9FQ&v3

I try coping and pasting the embeding link but here's what happen:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cNV9FEKi9FQ"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cNV9FEKi9FQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>


:shrug:

 

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[youtube]cNV9FEKi9FQ&v3[/youtube]

Well, it works on another forum I visit...

 

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You're such a helpful mod....

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Does the site feature a wee Youtube logo as one of the "buttons" on the "control panel" ? I visit a site called the Armchair Generals Forum which features embedding, and clicking on the control brings up the bracketed text you posted.

It may be that there is some bit of code which has to be "installed".
Oddly enough, I can't find a reference to it on the Youtube page, except this -
http://www.youtube.com/dev
which sounds pretty specific to one type of site.

Found this -
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?p=318304
See post #5, which refers to BB code. Not sure if that's similar to the "vB" code this site uses.

Or...

It might be that this site has HTML code turned off.
The embed code posted looks like HTML

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Here is an example of an embedded media player (non youtube)
BTW - I believe embedded content has been disabled here due to security reasons.

Code:

<embed 
allowScriptAccess="never" 
allowNetworking="internal" 
enableJavaScript="false" 
src=http:/online.storage/publicfolder/whatever.mp3
allowScriptAccess="never" 
allowNetworking="internal" 
allowScriptAccess="never" 
style="filter: gray" 
autoplay=true 
showgotobar=false 
showpositioncontrols=false 
showtracker=false 
showdisplay=false
showstatusbar=true
showcontrols=false
loop=false
height=24
width=420
>
</embed>

 

[embed][ENC]Pizza[/ENC][/embed]

 

Code:

Sub embed(ByVal size_of_pizza As Integer)
      current_weight = 185
      For x = 1 to size_of_pizza
           fat = fat + 1
           current_weight = current_weight + fat
      Next 
      return = current_weight
End Sub

 

You are indeed right, Sciforums had a spout of "cookie stealing/X-Scripting" attacks from some of the forums allowing RAW HTML/Javascript.

While the Object tags might seem harmless there is ways to utilise it to do things to aren't so harmless. I'm not of course going to show you any here but they do exist.