Hi Ken, Thanks for the extended research. That's really helpful!
Could you please clarify what kind of errors FF is throwing ? Also, could you please kindly advise if Safari 2's behaviour is consistent with Safari 3 ? Thanks, Tobie On Nov 14, 12:27 am, Ken Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobie Langel wrote: > > Some browsers - I can't remember witch - always return a status of 0 > > for the file: protocol, others don't return a value at all in that > > case, hence this hack. > > > We're going to be doing more work on Ajax for 1.6.1, but I'm not even > > sure there is a real solution ot his issue. > > > Regards, > > > Tobie > > I think the trick here is to return a separate status code for files > instead of zero. I believe it is possible to handle all situations. > > Here is the result of my research on status codes: > > Calling HTTP(S) ajax url > ---- > Network error scenarios: > FF2 - throws exception > S3 - transport.status == 0 > O9 - transport.status == 0 > IE6/7 - transport.status == (one of the following) > 1223 : Client canceled request > 12002: Server timeout > 12029: Dropped connection > 12030: Dropped connection > 12031: Dropped connection > 12152: Connection closed by server > > Calling file-based ajax url > ---- > Success: ALL BROWSERS - transport.status == 0 > Failure: ALL BROWSERS - transport.status == 0 > > Note: for network errors on FF 1.x transport.status == 200 and no > exception is thrown so the developer is left to see that the response is > empty to know of a failure. I don't think there is a workaround. > > So how can we know the difference between a network error and a > file-based url call?--Both url and location.protocol give clues. > > IMHO it is important that we properly route all these codes: file-based > requests should always fire "onSuccess" (unless we can figure out how to > detect a file-based failure) and any of the network error codes should > throw "onException". Right now, we get all sorts of kooky callbacks > such as "on0" and "on12029". > > For more info and links to my sources, see the discussion from > Sept:http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core/browse_thread/thread/1e... > > - Ken Snyder --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
