4.8.1 Display Issue With PB

Hi John,

After upgrading to 4.8.1 I've started to run into an issue with my menus and PB again.  I'm sure this has to be something stupid that I'm doing so any guidance you can provided would be greatly appreciated.

Basically it jumbles the html that make up my header bar and I need to Ctrl + F5 or Shift + Refresh to have everything load currently. Of course this basically means anyone other then me going to the site leaves right way since they can't find anything.

I've uploaded a series of screen shots and the associated html and PB config file to http://www.bahrenburgs.com/Snapsis_issue.zip

This seems to be something new to 4.8.1 since I've been running 4.8 for awhile without any issues.  Was anything new introduced that might have caused this issue in the latest build of DNN?

Below is my web.config entry.  The first thing I do when I install is comment out the Compression and RequestFilter entries.

                  < add name="UrlRewriteModule" type="UrlRewritingNet.Web.UrlRewriteModule, UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter" / >
            < add name="ScriptModule" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" / >
            < !-- add name="Authentication" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.AuthenticationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Authentication" / -- >
            < !-- -- >
            < !-- -- >
           
           
           
            < !-- -- >
            < add name="DNNMembership" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Membership.MembershipModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" / >
            < add name="Personalization" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Personalization.PersonalizationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" / >

I am having the same issue...

Although I am running 4.8.0, and it's also occuring in 4.7.0

I have isolated it to the PB software as the issue goes away when it's removed from the web.config

Attached is a screnshot of the issue.

I've been working on the new version of PB so haven't had a chance to upgrade to the latest DNN.  I'll get 4.8.1 installed and test it out. 

Is there anything significant you can tell me about these menus?

Is the behaviour erratic, in other words is it causing different things to go wrong, or is it basically the same problem when it happens?

If either of you are willing to try the new version I can also send that your way. Just reply directly to the notification from this post.

Hi John,

There doesn't seem to be a set reason for the issue.  It happens on pages with several modules as well as pages with one single html module.

I use the standard SolpartMenuNavigationProvider provider for my menus and have been able to re-produce this with the standard DNN blue skin.

I want to check to see if it might be a caching issue or something with the compression.

If I set the following will it effectively turn off caching?        disk-cache-interval="00:00:00:00"

Thanks John. I'll give that a shot and tomororw will send you an email about the beta build you discussed earlier.

This seems to only be an issue with 4.8.1 so I want to do alittle more hunting will let you know if I find anything.

Hi John,

Found something interesting, if I turn off caching as you put in your last post everything is fine.  As soon as I turn caching back on it scrambles the html right away.

I wonder if this has to do with the XHTML updates they included as part of 4.8.1. 

I thnk you are onto something there Brad. It probably is the way the new menu renders with spiders. The cache key includes a setting for if the User Agent has javascript capabilty, but I think the new menu might recognize a spider in a different way.

The new version has the ability to specify custom parameters for additional cache keys, so that should fix it.

Both versions also recognize the language of the User Agent as part of the cache key if you specify that in the config file, so it may help to add cached-languages="en-US" as a minimum there.

Thanks for the kudos, I appreciate it.

Hi John,

Does the new version of PB has access to ystem.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.Crawler to determine if a spider is calling?

Just thinking if there was away to turn off caching based on the same flag system that the dnn menus use.

Here is some info I found http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/1511/Default.aspx

for the Carousel you can put an exclude path like this:

path pattern="jQuery" excludeFrom="MergeJS"

For the downloads page, I'll have to get the repository installed and link to an exe file to test it out and understand what is happening.