stephenfewer/grinder

window.location.href doesn't actually request from server again

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On Internet Explorer 10, it seems window.location.href demonstrated in SimpleExample.html doesn't actually send a new request to the node's server for the next testcase. If there are no requests being made by the fuzzer, @@count in server.rb will not update, therefore it will not able to move on to the next fuzzer. The code I'm talking about is here:
https://github.com/stephenfewer/grinder/blob/master/node/core/server.rb#L84

My solution to this is this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms536691(v=vs.85).aspx

Use location.reload(true) with a timeout, it has to be true because that reloads the document from the server. It has to be in a timeout because it looks like if you're requesting too rapidly, it doesn't seem to want to reload from the server, either.

However, I have not done enough testing on different versions of IE, and different browsers. So even though this solution works for me, it's not enough as a pull request.

Awesome, thanks for the bug report, I'll investigate further to confirm how other browsers are handling this (I know its working for some as my nodes are cycling through fuzzers).

It might work to wrap a location.reload/location.href into a function in the LOGGER class, like logger.restart() or something to work across different browsers.

Thanks again!

Thanks!

my nodes also are cycling (on IE11), however what i do is to change the
options in IE to "check for newer versions of stored pages" --> "every time
i visit the webpage"

you can find this option in General --> Settings [under browsing history]

On 11 June 2014 23:59, sinn3r notifications@github.com wrote:

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@mutfuzz That sounds like a legit solution. Yeah you just need to force IE to actually request the webpage. When I add a "cache-control" header in the response it works too.