Thanks Tracy, Well, given ROR's focus on using REST techniques I can't really change the method. IOW, The router identifies requests by the HTTP method + URL, etc. I'll continue my research and see what I can do. In the meantime I'll do my development with FF and won't release to prod until I figure this out. I now see that some of these issues are discussed in "Flex on Rails" in the later chapters so I'll have a look.
Thanks, Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Tracy Spratt To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:29 PM Subject: RE: [flexcoders] HTTPService and Browser Differences This does sound like a caching issue. I understand that POST does not cache. You could change the GET to a POST to see if that is so. Alternatively, you can append some unique string to the GET url. Many folks use Date.time for this. Tracy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] HTTPService and Browser Differences Hi All, As I continue my Flex education I've come across an issue in my first production application. I'm using ROR along with Flex and passing XML back and forth, etc. I've learned a bunch via "Flex Solutions", "Flex on Rails", and "Training from the Source", etc. The issue I'm having seems to be caused by differences in IE and FF and how they handle responses from HTTPService calls. By using CharlesProxy I can see that everything works great in FF but they don't when using IE. I was hoping to remove all the cross-browser issues by moving to flex. :-) Anyway, I'm doing something like this: 1) Create a new record via HTTPService->POST\record.xml 2) The new record is created and an event is fired so that the existing record list can be refreshed. 3) HTTPService->GET\record.xml 4) Grid in the List component is refreshed with the additional record. Everything works great in FF and I can see both the POST and GET along with the returned XML item, and then list. On IE (v6), however, only the POST goes through and it seems like it is "caching" the result from the POST and using as the result for the GET, thereby making my "list" just a list of "one", the most recently created record. Though, this doesn're really work either as it doesn't have the surrounding <records type=array"> element. Anyway, I'm sure there is something I am missing with this new Flex development so I'm hoping you all can direct me to some specific reading to help me understand the major behavior differences between the browsers when using Flex, etc. Thanks much, Tom
