libURL issues?

[Richard Gaskin]

Dave Cragg wrote:

> At 10:12 am -0800 27/1/04, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Is anyone else seeing issues with the load command in libURL today?
>> 
>> "get url" works, but load almost always initiates, but then the socket
>> closes too quickly for the resource to be loaded.
> 
> 
> I couldn't load the stacks listed in the Stacks list. But it didn't
> seem to be a socket closing issue.
> 
> I poked around inside RevNet. Inside one of the backscripts (button
> id 1006 of card id 1002 of stack "....../Go_RevNet.rev"), look in the
> revnetGoStack handler. There is an "unload url pUrl" line in the
> handler a few lines before "load url pUrl". I think this is the
> culprit. When I comment out this line, it works OK. I don't think
> there is any need for the unload as the handler has already checked
> the cachedUrls.
> 
> I don't know for sure why the unload is causing a problem, but it may
> be to do with the way script locals are reset in libUrl. It seems as
> if the locals may not get deleted immediately, and this interferes
> with the load of the same url. I'll check it out and see if I can
> find a fix.
> 
> By the way, I find I have to click many times on the link at the top
> of the stackInfo field before the linkClicked message gets sent. This
> is in OS X. Do you have the same problem?

Yes, but like the other Rev issues only recently. :\

No reports like this have come in through the previous year since that code
was written.

Is the latest engine a little more finicky about hit testing?

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 Richard Gaskin 
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