jQuery in XPages @IBMConnect demo fixed – and the problem explained
Posted by MarkyRoden on February 1, 2013
So I am in the middle of doing my presentation @ IBMConnect 2013 and everything is going relatively well…..and someone asks a question
Question: “Hey Marky – does jQuery work in XPiNC?”
Marky: “sure it does watch this”
#SmugWithConfidence
Click Click
#FailWhale
404 – proxyServer Error
WTF ????
#PresenterPanic??!!
#CrowdLaughter (mostly from my loyal friends)….
#OhTheShame
WTF??? 
I told the audience it was because I had obviously broken it and I thought I knew the problem – i apologized profusely and said that I would fix it ASAP. Well today is ASAP 
It now works – you can download the sample database from http://demo.xomino.com and run it in XPiNC
The Problem
Some genius…..had messed with the menu for IBMConnect and changed the menu links so they looked like this
<a href="/xomino/jQinX.nsf/xPageSlide.xsp">PageSlide</a>
And that works perfectly fine in a web browser – but locally on the XPiNC webserver causes the ProxyServer error above!! The fix is simple – change it so that it is not relative to the server.
The issue is the /xomino link which is interpreted by the browser as http://demo.xomino.com, SLASH xomino. This is good technique because it doesn’t name the server and is therefore portable to other servers. But apparently fails in the local XPiNC server.
Why? I have no idea unfortunately but I am more concerned with the solution than the cause. Changing the links as follows and we have a working demo database again
<a href="xPageSlide.xsp">PageSlide</a>
as all the demo pages are at the same level in the URL this is not a problem. Weird eh!
I will talk to some people smarter than I and see if I can find out why this problem is caused by the XPiNC server – but be aware that you should not use links relative to the XPiNC server….weird!
I am very sorry this screwed up in the demo but hopefully enough people will forgive me and we can all carry on 
FirefighterGeek (@FirefighterGeek) said
I remember when that would have been consider a regression bug.
Eric McCormick said
Had differing relative link behavior between dev and production Domino server, on the web, with same Domino config. Figure that one out…
Nathan T. Freeman said
I’m so sorry I missed this session. Especially the part where it didn’t work. That would have been worth not being here to clear the storm drain on Wednesday and having my house flood.
Okay, seriously it would have been fun to shout from the audience that it doesn’t work in IE8 either. ;-D
Simon Reid said
It was a great session, you covered the mistake so well I almost believed you planned it!
BTW – the reason is in xPINC urls have a /xsp/ stuck at the front of them (ie. /xsp/xomino/jQinX.nsf/xPageSlide.xsp would work in the client, just not the browser).
I would like to think its because of a difference between xPINC and regular old domino web preview, but I suspect it was an elaborate joke from IBM designed to embarrass you on stage
Marky Roden said
nooooo !!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77802040@N06/8440004636/in/photostream
WOW – thanks Simon
Will blog when I have a chance
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