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Preserve URL hash when requesting via $.ajax #1732

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mgol opened this issue Oct 20, 2014 · 14 comments
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Preserve URL hash when requesting via $.ajax #1732

mgol opened this issue Oct 20, 2014 · 14 comments
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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Originally reported by pferreir at: http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/10495

While trying to inject the Facebook "like button" JS in a page in execution time, I got some funny behavior: 

var fjs = $('script:first');
$('<script/>').attr({'async': true, 'src': '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=xxx'}).insertBefore(fjs)

fails (same with the equivalent before() call).

While 

var fjs = $('script:first').get(0);
var e = $('<script/>').attr({'async': true, 'src': '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=xxx'}).get(0);
fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(e, fjs)

works just ok.

I tried different combinations of native/jQuery elements and they all fail. This happens at least since 1.6.1.

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Comment author: pferreir

I forgot to add that in the first case the element seems to be added to the DOM only to be immediately removed.

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Comment author: dmethvin

Why not use $.getScript ?  http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.getScript/

Can you provide a complete test case on jsfiddle.net? That would help us evaluate the problem.

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Comment author: pferreir

Hello,

Here is a small example:  http://jsfiddle.net/RQVsa/

The uncommented code should work (show the "Like" button), while the commented on should fail. I tried $.getScript, with no success...

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Comment author: timmywil

We filter out scripts in manipulation. getScript should be used, but we remove hashes from the url. I'm not sure why, but it's been there a while.

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

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Seems valid enough to keep open, until we figure out why we're removing the hash.

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

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Okay, this gives me an error from Facebook because of the xxx id:

 http://jsfiddle.net/RQVsa/10/

This gives the same error and doesn't have the hash as timmywil said:

 http://jsfiddle.net/RQVsa/11/

Since the script hasn't yet been executed the .insertBefore() is making the ajax request to request the script, but since the hash is stripped it's never going to see the correct id.

@jaubourg, do you know why we're stripping off the hash? Is there a specific reason for it, or just an omission?

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@mgol mgol commented Oct 20, 2014

Comment author: gibson042

A trip through the wayback machine reveals that we've been stripping hashes since 1.4.2's  fix for #4987.

I'd be in favor of preserving them, but if #3808 kills it for oldIE (and thus 1.9) then we may be unable to while maintaining API symmetry.

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@dmethvin dmethvin commented Dec 5, 2014

Hmmm. Now that we are attempting to parse the URL a bit more sanely per gh-1875 it might be possible to preserve the hash now.
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@dmethvin dmethvin commented Dec 5, 2014

By golly I think we can. After gh-1880 lands the hash is conveniently in ajaxLocation.hash and we could re-append it after adding any serialized params.
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@gibson042 gibson042 commented Dec 16, 2014

This was unlocked by b091fdb, but we might want a distinct ticket for AJAX hash preservation.
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@dmethvin dmethvin commented Dec 16, 2014

Agreed, since it's potentially a breaking change it's a good 3.0 candidate.
@dmethvin dmethvin changed the title before() fails but native insertBefore() works ok Preserve URL hash when requesting via $.ajax Dec 16, 2014
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@dmethvin dmethvin commented Nov 10, 2015

Looking at the WHATWG XHR spec they have intentionally taken the hash (fragment) off the URL in the responseURL property. @jaubourg do you know why that might be, or who we might ask? In the OP's reported case it was a script tag but I am wondering if there is more to the reasoning for excluding it for XHR.

Edit: Additional info here seems to indicate stripping the fragment early is okay: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps-github/2015Jul/1046.html
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@gibson042 gibson042 commented Nov 11, 2015

Fragments are never sent to servers, and are apparently not even exposed on fetches. But they can appear in the DOM and be visible to executing scripts. It's an extremely rare case to be sure, but one that script transports are technically wrong on as long as we strip them.
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Ajax: Preserve URL hash on requests
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Fixes jquerygh-1732
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@modeckimellett modeckimellett commented Nov 19, 2015

Interesting. I asked a Stack Overflow question about this a while ago and never got a response. I'll add a link to this issue and the pull request to the question in comments. Thanks for working on this everyone!

For reference, my question is at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32855458/jquery-ajax-content-from-an-end-point-which-responds-differently-depending-on-th
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Tabs: Remove test for Ajax URLs containing hashes
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This hasn't been a problem for a long time and jQuery no longer removes
the hash in 3.0.0, so the test started to fail even though the actual
code is working just fine.

Ref #3627
Ref jquery/jquery#1732
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Tabs: Strip hash from remote content URLs
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As of jQuery 3.0.0, hashes are no longer stripped for Ajax requests. This
causes issues in IE <11, so we need to strip this before making the request.

Ref jquery/jquery#1732
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Tabs: Strip hash from remote content URLs
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As of jQuery 3.0.0, hashes are no longer stripped for Ajax requests. This
causes issues in IE <11, so we need to strip this before making the request.

Ref jquery/jquery#1732
Closes gh-1736
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