Just to bring you up to date, turns out the problem wasn't the ajax
call not returning, it was in the code that processed the call, which
hung the browser!
The offending call was somthing like:
$("a[href='javascript:Submit('text')']")
On Jun 26, 11:45 am, Nikki Locke <ni...@trumphurst.com> wrote:
> Further to this, my real application is hanging the browser, and I
> don't know how to find out what is wrong :-(
>
> I have tried it with IE8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome - the browser
> always hangs at some point.
>
> Any suggestions what to try next would be very gratefully received.
>
> On 25 June, 20:57,NikkiLocke<ni...@trumphurst.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am building a web app that is controlled from a server. I want the
> > server to send objects to the app, which the app then processes. I am
> > using getScript for this, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.
> > I have example code at //jsbin.com/umuwi
>
> > This code calls getScript on the url ://jsbin.com/utake - this returns
> > the following text:
> > _jq_action={type:"href"};
>
> > I call getScript as follows:
>
> > var _jq_action;
>
> > $(document).ready(function(){
> > _jq_getaction();
>
> > });
>
> > function _jq_getaction() {
> > try {
> > _jq_action = null;
> > $.getScript("http://jsbin.com/utake";, _jq_processaction);
> > _jq_log("sent request");
> > } catch(e) {
> > alert(e);
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > function _jq_processaction() {
> > try {
> > _jq_log("got reply");
> > if(_jq_action) {
> > _jq_log(_jq_action.type + " received");
> > } else {
> > _jq_log("no action");
> > }
> > } catch(e) {
> > alert(e);
> > }
>
> > }
>
> > _jq_log is a function which merely outputs messages to the screen, so
> > I can see what is going on.
>
> > The request gets sent, but _jq_action is always null.
>
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