Version 3.0 Beta Test FeedBack

I vote early and often for the cache flush - DaveS

I have just discovered a new problem.

I have to UDT modules that Have PDF files in them. Located on Links and Docs  and Web Service Docs. When every I click on the crazy DNN link-click url the system hangs waiting for the server.  With page exclusions rules of ".* ALL" it still fails. If I edit the web.conf and stop PB it works.

I suspect that the exclusion really needs to be on  LinkClick.aspx and nor on the page that I have them.

Help,

/Dave

I have added LinkClick to the exclusions rules and all works well.  Can I assume that you will be adding this to your default config file?

/Dave

John as we periodically hear of different "trace levels" for PB, I sugesst that you add a comment to the config file that lists them. It is clear that with all of the magic your have added tp V3 that there is a greater likelyhood that people will need to trace more often. Knowing the choices will help.

/Dave

Since none of us can test how upgrading PB from V2.0 to V3.0 works anymore, that area may need some additional testing.  During the upgrade from 3.0.4+ to V3.0.8 (on my clone), I made a copy of the PB.config file so that I could re-edit my additional rules in with yours.  Your upgrade saw that I was running PB and didn't replace PB.config. Leaving my rules intact - but not giving me any changes you had made.

Next I commented PB out of web.config, deleted PB.config and reinstalled. I now had a copy of the new and old PB.config and 4 copies of PB's "add verb" line in web.config.  Needless to say I have no problem dealing with these minor issues, I think existing PB2.0 customers may have strange things happening, if they end up with parts of V2.0 and V3.0.   I like your new I'll manage the old manual parts of the installation.  I wonder if there aren't going to be some upgrade headaches for you.

/Dave

Hello John,

I found this error in the log (using 3.0.8)

    2/22/2008 5:25:30 PM PB:RequestFilter.MergeCSS: Error creating static AXD File J:\wwwroot\DnnHosted19\DesktopModules\Snapsis\PageBlaster\Cache\36d4b6edb5cc47d3ae92949960b87b4c.axd
    Unable to connect to the remote server
       at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
       at Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.StaticFileHandler.GetStaticAXD(HttpContext context, CachedRequest& cachedRequest)

This error is logged for every request to a page containing a WebResource.axd  call if it's not exclude in the config file. And I've got a 404 too.

Once WebResource.axd  it's excluded everithing works fine and the error in the log vanishes.

That is extrange. How is WebResource.axd related to MergeCSS ?


thanks,

dani

Hi dani,

It looks like you found a bug in the Error logging. Copy & Paste can do that .

That error is actually in the method that gets the a static version of the virtual WebResource.axd file.

It does it by making a new WebRequest back to itself.  If it fails to get the file then it will return a 404.

If you don't have WebPermission in your hosting environment then you will need to exclude WebResource.axd from PageBlaster like you already found out.

I have attached an image that shows where you can look in the host settings page to see if you have WebPermission in your hosting environment.

Hi John,

I checked it and the site has WebPermission. It's running under the network service account and is a II6 on a Windows 2003.

any other idea?

thanks!

dani

Ok, that can be good news if we can figure out why the error is really happening and fix it then.

I have attached a debug version. If you could place both files in your /bin folder and capture the error again it may tell us more.

thank you for your help John,

here it is the full log captured with the debug version. I loaded the page two times and I've got two errors.

[attachement removed after download]

There must be something else on the server that is blocking the request on port 80 back to itself.  Or maybe DNS isn't setup on the server to resolve correctly back to your website.

john

you were absolutely right!!

The server had the firewall missconfigured and it was blocking the http requests made to itself. 

Currently Pageblaster is handling and compressing Webresource.axd properly.

I'd like to thank you your close support in this issue and apologize for blaming PageBlaster for that problem,

dani

When I checked your latest kit on my localhost clone it worked ok, but I didn't want to install it online during the day. I just installed it and started YSlowing a couple of pages to see if you had made any new improvements.  PageBlaster is on and working but the YSlow score on my home page when from D-63 to F-54.  Wow.  Any know reason? Anything that you want me to do.

What is really interesting. I recloned at 9AM this moring. On the clone's home page I get D-60 and on the online one F-54.

The have the same PB config file, I ftp'ed it up after ending in my addtional rules.

/DaveS

Maybe this is a bug - or maybe I've missed something:

Just placed PageBlaster on the forum page of my dev-site (Active Forums) and configured a virtual directory in PB. Now all requests to /Forum/default.aspx are handled correctly. There's a problem, though. All special characters fx. the danish letters "æ ø å" are showed incorrectly. Example:

ø = ø
æ = æ
å = Ã¥

This only occours when requesting the page through the "Friendly-URL" handled by PB - not when requesting the "original" URL (/forum/tabid/xxx/xxx).

Guess there's an encoding issue somewhere?

-AllanE