Re: [Boston.pm] IE7 and JS image object

[Alex Brelsfoard]

Thanks all.

As it turns out this whole problem is caused by interfering JS.
I was not originally told of this, but the testing page had other JS
calls on it.
Once they were removed, this JS worked fine.
Don't know how that would make this break, and how my fix would fix it.
But at least we know that the problem is not directly with my code.

Thanks for all the help.

--Alex

On Nov 13, 2007 3:40 PM, Tom Metro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Brelsfoard wrote:
> > This JS is being called through a perl script:
> > So file.pl spits out "Content-type: text/JavaScript\n\n" followed by
> > some JavaScript.
>
> As long as your JS is executing, I don't expect that has an impact on
> the problem.
>
>
> > This does NOT give a request to the apache logs:
> > var img_src = "https://mydomain.com/images/ping.gif?n=1";;
> >
> > But this DOES:
> > var img_src = "https://mydomain.com/images/ping.gif?n=2";;
>
> You said you had code to add random data after the file name. I don't
> see that.
>
>
> > ...if you can help explain this strange behavior in IE7 I would be
> > very grateful.
>
> I reiterate the suggestions from my last posting:
>
> >> The other option to consider is the involvement of a caching proxy. Is
> >> IE configured to use a proxy? Try running a packet sniffer to see where
> >> it is actually connecting. You might also be faced with a transparent
> >> caching proxy at an ISP, which you won't be able to bypass from the
> >> client side, but should have the same effect on all browsers running on
> >> the machine running IE7.
> [...]
>
> >> Have you explored setting the headers from the server side of things? If
> >> this is just a simple image bug used for tracking purposes, you could
> >> throw together a CGI with a few lines of code that sets the headers and
> >> returns the image. There are probably scripts already available that do
> >> this.
>
>
>   -Tom
>
> --
> Tom Metro
> Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
> "Enterprise solutions through open source."
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>
 
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