Hey Gavin - Thanks for the fact-finding, that definitely clears things up - I'll see if I can fix this for 1.3.3.
--John On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM, d3r1v3d (Gavin Mulligan) <[email protected]> wrote: > > For kicks, I've been looking into the causes behind the problem this > ticket poses. I've managed to duplicate the error in the test script > that the ticket poster provided (http://pixeline.be/experiments/ > jquerybeta/test2.html). > > Essentially, the problem is that Ajax GET requests (haven't tried with > POST) to a URL which happens to include an anchor ('#') consistently > fail with HTTP 404 status errors (Document Not Found) in Internet > Explorer (tested with 7.0.5730.13), while these same requests are > processed just fine in Firefox 3, Chrome, et al. > > After putzing around a bit, I noticed something interesting. When I > ran the test case in Internet Explorer, my Apache error log displayed > the following error: > [Tue Mar 03 15:59:30 2009] [error] [client ***.**.**.**] File does not > exist: /<path to web-server>/dummy.html#love, referer: ... > > I did not get this error with the other browsers that successfully > execute the call to load(). > > Case in point, it seems that, with the IE ajax request, the anchor > (and anchor name) is not correctly parsed out of the base document's > file name when it is served. This would be akin to a web server > receiving a get request for webPage.html with parameters foo=bar and > searching for a document on the local file-system named '/apache/ > htdocs/webPage.html?foo=bar'. Obviously any query strings (or in this > case, anchor data) should be removed from the URL before this point. > > I would argue, however, that these anchors have no place in Ajax > requests to begin with, as the entire dummy.html document will be > retrieved and returned in the Ajax response, thus eliminating the need > for an anchor tag. However, I would propose that the jQuery Ajax > component could be extended to parse out any erroneous anchor tags > from request URLs so that this is no longer a problem in the future. > > - Gavin > > (I apologize if I seem overly verbose, just want to get the facts out) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
