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Re: MSIE is not the postman


  • Subject: Re: MSIE is not the postman
  • From: Thomas <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 15:33:01 +1000

Chuck,

as always, your advice was spot on. It was worth buying your book (amongst many other reasons) if it encouraged you to keep contributing to this forum.

The system with the problem is a CMS. It turns out that the customer- imported content for some pages included something like

<font color=""#333333""> (note the doubled quotes)

and this was enough to make MSIE fetch a truncated URL after it had displayed the page.

Ironically, debugging this problem was made harder because the WYSWIG html editor TinyMCE strips out the rubbish when it saves the content, so the problem sometimes disappeared for no obvious reason.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards
Thomas

On 12/05/2007, at 4:20, Chuck Hill wrote:

If it is not the two expires headers, validate the HTML. Invalid HTML can make some browsers send multiple requests (e.g. color=ee3322 instead of color="#ee3322" can trigger a request).

Chuck


On May 8, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Thomas wrote:

I am having a problem with MSIE 7 that does not happen in any real browser.

There is a direct action link that selects a product. The direct action ends in

.../groupcode/productcode.html

The direct action selects the product and displays the page with the product details. But when you click on the link in MSIE, it sends TWO requests to the server: the proper direct action with the full URL, followed by another one that is just

.../groupcode/

But this second request is not displayed, only the first one is.

It just so happens that this direct action clears the selected product in the session, so any component actions in the detail page, like adding to the shopping cart, fail because there is no selected product. And of course the page that results when you click "add to cart" shows the list of products in the group, instead of the detail page, because the selected product has been cleared.

Other browsers work properly, but with some odd behaviour:

- Safari sends one request.

- Camino 1.0 and Firefox 2 both send TWO requests, but they are both the full URLs.

Anybody have any ideas? This is driving me nuts. The site is a work in progress, but it won't go live with problems like this.

For those who are curious, the work-in-progress page with the problem is:

http://stage.thewoodworks.com.au/product/products/1000025/SCROLL +SAWS.html

Clicking on "more info" on any product gives the problem.


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