Refresh without progress bar

[sgietz]

OK, this has been bugging me for a while now. On certain sites, you can click on a link and the page redirects with a slight flicker as you would expect, BUT the progress bar on the browsers status bar won't show up.

Off the top of my head, this happens with our statistics site, which is powered by SmarterStats (on Win 2003). I have also seen it on other, public websites.

I checked the source and don't see any evidence of frames.

Anyways, just wondering what might be going on.

[tedster]

Does the url change afer you click the link on these pages? If not, you may be seeing AJAX or a show/hide div script at work.

[encyclo]

It could also be a server-side redirect - a redirect generated by the server pointing the URL to a different page. These can be either temporary (302 or 307 redirect) or permanent (301 redirect).

[sgietz]

Yes, the URL changes. To give you a specific example regarding our stat system, under site settings, you can choose from several options. To name two: User Administration, Email Report Settings.

The first one goes to: .../Client/frmUsers.aspx
The second goes to: .../Client/frmEmailReportSettings.aspx

There is no progress bar.

This may all be trivial, but I like to figure this one out :o)

[encyclo]

The best way is to use Firefox and the "Live HTTP headers" extension:

[livehttpheaders.mozdev.org...]

You will probably see a "302 Found" or a "301 Moved Permanently" response code when you open the first page, which will immediately redirect to the second. :)

[sgietz]

It actually gives me a 200 OK status. Odd!