OK. Fixed the problem, but still would like to know why this fix works.
I googled for PeriodicalUpdater not working in Internet Explorer and got a hit list that was extensive. the fourth thred on the list advised me to change the ‘get’ to ‘post’. See the URL for the thread below:
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=139781
Based on that, I made the following change:
live.js file was:
document.observe(‘dom:loaded’, function() {
new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater(‘userList’, ’/users’,
{ method: ‘get’, frequency: 3 });
});
I changed it to:
document.observe(‘dom:loaded’, function() {
new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater(‘userList’, ’/users’,
{ method: ‘post’, frequency: 3 });
});
It works now both in Internet Explorer and Firefox. Kindly exmplain the ramifications of using ‘get’ versus ‘post’ in above.
One thing that I have noticed is that when I close the browser in Firefox, the ruby Webrick server remains unaffected, but for some reason, closing the browser connection from Internet Exmplorer causes the server to throw exception as follows:
[2008-05-25 15:15:39] ERROR IOError: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host C:/NB61/ruby2/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `run’ C:/NB61/ruby2/jruby-1.1/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread’ :1:in `start’
just to clarify: I am running NetBeans 6.1, and in the above Ruby project, I am using JRuby 1.1 as shown.
Thanks.
Bharat
