Re: IE Bookmarks IFrame src issue.

On 07/27/2010 10:29 AM, Greg Dougherty wrote:
> Can they do that ONLY for IE 6 & 8? Because it doesn't look like they
> want to stop caching, they want the bookmark to stop going to the old
> iFrame source.
>
> Greg

Then they'll also have to work with RewriteCond, which is an ugly
solution. Were it me, I'd back up and try another path. But it isn't,
and I'm not.

>
> On Jul 27, 11:04 am, Jeff Chimene <jchim...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 07/27/2010 08:53 AM, Sony wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> A truly idiotic bunch at Microsoft must have decided this was a great
>>> idea: If you open an IE Bookmark in a text editor you will see it
>>> records an IFrame's src at the time the bookmark was created. When
>>> using said bookmark next time around, IE makes a request of the
>>> IFrame's src without even checking if the src for that IFrame has
>>> changed in the newly requested page && so if and only if the
>>> previously recorded src fails to load (either from cache or from
>>> server) does it try loading the new src that the IFrame tag now
>>> carries.
>>
>>> This is actually a major problem for our GWT web-app - as we release
>>> every quarter and we employ GWT's 'perfect caching' strategy i.e.
>>> cache policy of forever for all *.cache.* files. Both IE6 & IE8 end
>>> up requesting and then loading from cache the older version of our
>>> cache.html resulting in various incompatibility exceptions. For now
>>> we just let users know to delete the bookmark and recreate it in these
>>> types of situations.
>>
>>> Any help in fixing this issue would be appreciated. I've tried
>>> replacing the iframe-linker with the cross-site linker which works but
>>> then code-splitting is not supported (which we rely on heavily).
>>
>>> Thanks much
>>> Sony
>>
>> You can set the cache properties using .htaccess or, if you control the
>> httpd server, in that software's domain settings.
>

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