I’m getting some strange behavior from my machine that is causing my flex site
not to load in IE 6; however from my machine Firefox works perfectly fine to
load the site. I also checked from another machine and the site loads normally
on firefox and even from IE 7. I have Adobe Flash Player 9 installed on all
machines
Client Machine A (my machine):
Firefox 2.0.0.7: site load properly
IE 6.0.2900.2180: **FLEX SITE DOES NOT LOAD**
Client Machine B (another test machine):
Firefox 2.0.0.6: site load properly
IE 7.0.5730.11: site loads properly
SERVER ENVIORNMENT: Here is the environment that I am running my server on
CentOS – linux operating system
Apache – web server
Mongrel – app server
(Also using Capistrano to deploy Ruby Gems)
ISSUE: When I use IE6 it seems that I get the flash application downloaded
because I can see the background color and when I right click I can see the
flash context menu, but for some reason the screen is completely blank and does
not show the Accordian object and login boxes that should be on the home page.
I have investigated the log files on the server
(/etc/httpd/logs/myFlexApp.com-access_log) and I have noticed some inconsistent
behavior. On Client Machine A when I enter the url for
http://www.mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.html I can see the following trace which
shows multiple 304 http responses with a final 200 http response for the SWF
file showing the .SWF file is received successfully:
[27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/history.js HTTP/1.1" 304 -
"http://www.mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.html"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
[27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/ myFlexApp.swf HTTP/1.1" 304 -
"http://www. mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
[27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/history.htm HTTP/1.1" 304 -
"http://www. mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
[27/Sep/2007:10:42:52 +0000] "GET /bin/history.swf HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.
mydomain.com/bin/history.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
[27/Sep/2007:10:42:52 +0000] "GET /sessions HTTP/1.1" 200 25 "http://www.
mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.swf" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT
5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)"
>From Client_Machine_A I notice the same trace in the log file for Firefox
>2.0.0.7, but everything works perfectly and I can view the site properly.
What’s weird is that from another test machine, Client_Machine_B I notice that
for each request there is a http response of 200 showing that all files
(myFlexApp.html, history.swf, history.js, etc.) are received successfully.
If anyone has any insight as to what might be the issue, I would greatly
appreciate your help.
(ps. I noticed a similar issue in the mail archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08708.html but that
issue involved Tomcat and SSL, which don’t apply to my situation)
Once again, any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Deven Hariyani
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