AJAX / Firefox crashing on close() response

[gimecoffee]

My onreadystatechange is calling the function updatePage(see below.)

function updatePage() {
  if(document.getElementById('readystate')){
    document.getElementById('readystate').innerHTML='Ready State is '+doc.readyState;
  }
  if (doc.readyState == 4) {
    if (doc.status == 200) {
      var response = doc.responseText.split("|");
      if (response[0]!="") {
        eval(response[0]);
      }
    } else {
      if(tried<3) {
        getXML(file,str); tried++;
      } else {
        alert("Status code " + doc.status+"\n"+
        "Server connection appears to be\n"+
        "down.  Try re-entering your request.");
        close();
      }
    }
  }
}

response[0] js script returned by the server is

if(opener.prm06)opener.prm06['04']['posted']='2006-06-02';
if(opener.prm06)opener.prm06['04']['uid']='john';
window.close();

Everything works in IE but in FireFox the child hangs on the window.close() statement. If I click on the window that was suppose to close ALL Firefox (even unrelated) windows close. If I leave the winodw.close() statement out of the return code I can close the window manually without crashing FF.

Any suggestions
Rois

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Try renaming your "close" function to something else (e.g. "myClose", as I suspect it is conflicting.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[gimecoffee]

Dan,
I added

function myClose(){
window.close();
}

to my page and changed my scripts to use window.myClose
and changed the server returned code to be

if(opener.prm06)opener.prm06['04']['uid']='john';
window.myClose();

But it's still crashing ALL FF windows.
Thoughts?
Rois

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You have anotehr close function though, I thought:

      if(tried<3) {
        getXML(file,str); tried++;
      } else {
        alert("Status code " + doc.status+"\n"+
        "Server connection appears to be\n"+
        "down.  Try re-entering your request.");
        [!]close();[/!]
      }

Is that what you were previously calling?

Dan

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[gimecoffee]

That was an error. Should have been window.close(); but the script isn't hitting that in this instance since ajax is connecting and getting a response back.

I got it to work correctly by replacing window.myClose(); with self.setTimeout('window.close();',500); in the server return response.

Why do you suppose making it wait 1/2 a second makes it work? Not finished with the previous command before trying to close crashes js???
Thanx
Rois