[Seaside] blank page bug

[Nevin Pratt]

I'm in the process of converting our site over to 2.3.

One thing I'm hitting right now:  Seaside 2.3 doesn't have the WATree 
component.

Nevin


Avi Bryant wrote:

>Ok, so here's the scoop.
>
>The problem Nevin and others were reporting with occasional blank pages
>showing up in 2.3 is not an OS X or VM specific bug - the reason I wasn't
>seeing it seems to be that my browser was somehow hiding it from me rather
>than that it didn't exist on my system.  The cause of the bug is the
>implementation of WAProcessMonitor>>timeout.  This controls how long one
>incoming request on a session waits before preempting the previous one in
>the same session.  I had put some tricky code in there to try to avoid
>waiting for the timeout when resuming a session after debugging, but it
>seems to have been too tricky, and was sometimes returning 0 seconds when
>it shouldn't have been, causing requests to be prematurely terminated.
>At any rate, changing #timeout to simply return the 'timeout' inst var
>fixes that problem:
>
>WAProcessMonitor>>timeout
>  ^ timeout
>
>This should be easy for people using 2.3b to change in their images.
>
>I was led astray for a long time by another problem, which is that both
>Safari and IE on OS X frequently fail to connect to the Comanche server at
>all, leading to "could not display this page" error messages.  This only
>seems to happen when connecting to OS X, from OS X, and only with those
>browsers (I tried Camino, for example, and it was fine).  I have no idea
>what's going on here - OS X users should simply avoid those browsers until
>someone figures this out.  Note that connecting with those browsers to
>Seaside running on a linux VM (or possibly even to OS X on another
>machine) works perfectly, so it shouldn't usually be a problem for
>deployment, only development.
>
>Hopefully this clears things up a bit.  Hopefully it also clears the way
>for a 2.3 release.  Has anyone that has been using 2.3b seen any other
>problems that should be addressed first?
>
>Avi
>
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