First off, I am not a programmer at all. This question is from a client perspective. A website I frequent uses ajax to instruct client browsers to send and XMLHttpRequest to check for updates of new posts to the forum.
I am using Firefox 3.5.7 with JAVA build 1.6.0_17-b04 and the same version of flash, etc.
One system has Windows XP, the other is Windows 7. On the Windows 7 client I have also tried to use 64 bit browser and java but still have the same issue.
The XP system will initiate the XMLHttpRequest every 3 seconds or so as it is supposed to, but the Windows 7 system will never initiate the request.
I have used an HTTP sniffer to capture the request on the XP system and have also used various tools to test all of the plugins, java, ajax etc. on the Windows 7 system and against the site. All check out ok. Have verified Java, etc is enabled.
SO the question is, with everything being the same version, why won't the Windows 7 system ever initiate the request as shown below?
The site admin is at a loss as well why only Win 7 clients have this issue. I appreciate any input someone may have. Thank You!!
This is the request and response stream from the XP client.
REQUEST: This happens every 3 seconds or so.
POST /forums/ajax.php?do=shownewresponses HTTP/1.1 Host: www.kingbubba.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Connection: keep-alive X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 Referer: http://www.kingbubba.com/forums/showthread.php?p=111988 Content-Length: 129 Cookie: bblastvisit=1261861860; bblastactivity=0; bbsessionhash=c8d40ad2a4183aac4ae06804cb8c6962 Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache
securitytoken=1263165064-3bf1e7c98a9f334330eefb311bd0ac3f8e968be8&threadid=1320&ajax_lastpost=1263164956&ajax_lastedit=1263139805
RESPONSE:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:11:59 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.11 Cache-Control: private Pragma: private X-UA-Compatible: IE=7 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=86 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/xml; charset=windows-1252 X-Antivirus: avast! 4 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean