window.opener.location.reload(); don't work

[giuseppeitaliano]

I have a jsp page with a table which contains data from a database.
From this page I open a popup window that permits to update these informations.
So from popup window (also jsp page) I submit a servlet and before closing it with wondow.close(), I try to update opener window with:

window.opener.location.reload();

but it sometimes works and sometimes not.
Is there any explanation of this?
Thanks in advance.

 

[jemminger]

i would say when the parent or child window is submitted, there is a chance that the reference between the two will be lost, thus window.opener becomes null.

in my experience though i use a child window (in IE) that submits/navigates from the original page often yet the opener reference is persisted.



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