IE Bug.

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Hi there.

 

I want to report a bug on IE (6 & 7, and probably 8 when it comes).

 

Assume you're developing a web site named MySite, that has a Funtionality aspx page with a button that loads a 'report' aspx page in a popup window named MyReport.aspx from a reports sub dir from the web app's root URL

 

htpp://ServerName/MySite/Functionality.aspx

 

hit report button and get to see report via url:

 

htpp://ServerName/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

 

You test locally on localhost, do system integration testing on that server, and user acceptance testing on another server, production acceptance testing on yet another server, and finally get the thing running on the final production server machine.

 

So the URLS become:

htpp://localhost/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

htpp://SITServerName/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

htpp://UATServerName/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

htpp://PATServerName/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

htpp://ProductionServerName/MySite/reports/MyReport.aspx

 

Now for the bug:

 

If you switch between urls to see the report in each environment, the information is corrupted in a single move between any of the environments.

 

IE somehow allows previously viewed URLs, regardless of what server they come from, contaminate each other.

 

To avoid not seeing contaminated data, or just plain IE errors, you have to clear your cache and history entirely before viewing a different environment's results for the report.

 

This is very frustraiting. The 'report' could be data in a datagrid, results of a sql select, bound to controls in a separate window, or other bound data.

 

Any similar findings? Comments?

 

GaltSalt.

 

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