popups wont work for a .jsp app on a WinXP SP2 machine

[jaredo]

I have a JSP app running on our local webserver. One guy ( who happens to be on the board of directors of the company ) cant open any of the pop-ups on the pages, even though he has been able to do so for over a year, up until yesterday.

In troubleshooting the problem with him, he can open pop-ups on the site that are html based (e.i. target="_blank") but not javascript based (e.i. window.open). If I transform those same exact pages into any other technology (.aspx, .asp, .cfm, etc.) the pop-ups work fine for him.

For testing purposes he turned off his popup blocker and has his security settings to the lowest. He is using IE on Windows XP SP2 and has not made any internet related setting changes in over a month. The app hasnt changed recently, and the popup code specifically hasnt been touched for over a year.

Any ideas??

 

[Diancecht]

At first sight, it seems to be a Javascript enabling problem. Anyway, jps pages just produce html code, so the problem is with the browser, not the JSP part.

You can compare the html produced by the jsp and asp and see what's changing.

Anyway, I'd recommend you to post this in the Browser forum

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=608

or in the windows XP forum

http://www.tek-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=779.

Cheers,

Dian

 

[jaredo]

Thanks for your thoughts. I made sure he had javascript enabled, and I guess either way that couldnt be the problem since it works on the .asp and other pages. I will be sure to take your advice and look into how the technologies are rendering the html differently, and post if I find anything out. Let me know if you have any other ideas (since the fact that only one dynamic page technology handles the javascript in this way baffles me).

 

[timw]

I'd save the rendered HTML to files for the jsp generated page and one of the working ones, and run a diff on them to find any differences. The 'odds' are strong that there is something amiss with the jsp generated version.

Tim
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