Layout fails to re-load when browser refresh button is pushed (in IE7 with default settings)

[chrisclaydon]

In IE7, load up a Fusion layout based on the Slate template. It should work the first time. Then click the browser's refresh button.

In IE7, the layout can fail to load after the refresh. It depends on the caching settings...

In IE, click on Tools->Internet Options, and on the 'General' tab, click on the Settings button in the 'Browsing history' section. In the 'Check for newer versions of stored pages' section, this problem occurs if the setting is 'Automatically', but does not occur if it is set to 'Every time I visit the webpage'.

[madair]

I'm unable to reproduce this. Using IE7, cache set to check automatically, I can see the traffic in Fiddler with many 304 responses. Is there some other setting in play here? Also tried disabling script debugging but the page always reloads for me.

[chrisclaydon]

Are you retrieving the application definition from the MapGuide repository, or using the local ApplicationDefinition.xml?

[madair]

Loading the AppDef? from the repository gives the same results (i.e. can't reproduce the problem). I am launching the page by copy/paste of the URL from Studio 2009 into the browser (IE isn't my default browser, and I'm running into problems getting MG2010 Apacherunning).

[chrisclaydon]

If I change the Slate template to link fusion.js, I can't reproduce it. If I change it back to fusionSF-compressed.js, I can.

[madair]

(In [1655]) re #155: use setTimeout to call getAppDef so that ApplicationDefinition.parse will return before Fusion.setLaodState(LOAD_WIDGETS) gets called (otherwise Fusion.ApplicationDefinition is null). When the browser is set to read files from cache, the AppDef? is retrieved from cache and the sequence of callbacks is executed too quickly

[chrisclaydon]

This now works in IE unless the SESSION parameter is used for authentication. e.g.

 http://localhost:8008/mapguide2010/fusion/templates/mapguide/slate/index.html?ApplicationDefinition=Library%3a%2f%2fSheboygan.ApplicationDefinition&SESSION=b82771f4-9300-102b-8000-001e37d08476_en_7F0000010AF20AF10AF0

In this case, it still fails to refresh.

[madair]

(In [1681]) closes #155: also break execution thread if session parameter is supplied