.axd file added to header when CSS merging is switched off

Over the weekend I installed v3.3.1 but I did not switch on the CSS merging function. However I see in my soruce code that a .axd file (which is totally blank) is being linked to from the header of each page in my portal.

Is this the internded behaviour of default installs of Pageblaster? Because it adds an unneccessary extra requst each time from the browser to the server.

Thanks.

eoghano

Merging of CSS is not on by default, unless for some reason you have a CSS link to a file that does not have a .css extension.

The following line in the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file keeps the merge from happeing on .css files:

            < path pattern="\.css$" excludeFrom="MergeCSS" />

You can change that to exclude all files from the merge process like this:

            < path pattern=".*" excludeFrom="MergeCSS" />

John,
Thanks for the speedy reply. I double-checked and - as I expected - all my CSS links are to files that have a .css extension. However I did note that for one of them the URL for the .css file has blank spaces in its path:

/DNN/Portals/0/Skins/reviews - variable width/skin.css

I suspect these spaces are the problem? Can you advise a way to account for such a naming convention of a skin folder in the excludeFrom="MergeCSS" path pattern?

Thanks.

Eoghano

Hi Eoghano,
I just found a bug in the CSS Merge process which may or may not help with your issue, but if you want to give it a try I have attached the new dll to this post.