[RESOLVED] Ajax / LoadBalancing / and the ScriptResource.axd File

[VBCrazyCoder]

Hi all, here is my situation:

I have Server1 and Server2 load balancing - I have an AJAX page that uses an ajax timer to check the status of something and update the UI with results.

When I run the page specifying Server1 it works fine, likewise if I specify Server2. However, if I don't specify and I let the load balancer determine the server, all is well until one of the ajax postbacks goes to the alternate server - I then get the error message:

"Sys.ScriptLoadFailedException. The script '/mysite/ScriptResource.axd?d=......" failed to load.

When I enable script debugging in IE I get:

"Missing call to Sys.Application.notifyScriptLoaded()"

I made sure that the machinekeys are the same between both servers and ran a Fiddler trace to see what was going on - and the call to notifyscriptloaded does not occur when the ajax postback is routed to the other server after it has already hit the first server.

My setup is ASP.net 2.0 on Server2003, the page in question has a masterpage, and the script manager is in the page within a content region.

Anyone experience this or have a work-around. I don't think there is a way to tell it where to find the ScriptResource.axd file... Thanks for any help!

[mendhak]

The /mysite/ seems to be using the virtual directory name in the path. This may mean that you have the same problem as this guy -

http://plainoldstan.blogspot.com/200...sourceaxd.html

His solution was to give both paths to the application on both servers the same virtual directory name.

[VBCrazyCoder]

I thought that too but my virtual directories are exactly the same on both machines.

[VBCrazyCoder]

[RESOLVED] Turns out that .net 2.0 added a "t" parameter to the path for the ScriptResource.axd file, so that had to match across servers.

[OttawaTechGuy]

How did you make sure that 't'e paramters are same in all servers.

Did you add it to another server as well ?

[VBCrazyCoder]

Since the "t" parameter relates to the LastModifiedDate on the System.Web.Extensions.dll in the GAC, you must make sure that the date matches across the servers.
You can view the dates using this (which also will show you the path):

Dim strFilePath As String = "C:\WINDOWS\assembly\gac_msil\system.Web.Extensions\1.0.61025.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.Extensions.dll"
			Dim strFilePath2 As String = "C:\WINDOWS\assembly\gac_msil\System.Web.Extensions.Design\1.0.61025.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Web.Extensions.Design.dll"

			MessageBox.Show("DT: " & File.GetLastWriteTime(strFilePath).ToString() & "  ||  Design file: " & File.GetLastWriteTime(strFilePath2).ToString())

So just set them both to the exact same datetime and you should be good to go.

[OttawaTechGuy]

Thank you very much,

I did find out that modified dates were wrong as the AJAX Control Tool Kit assemblies were in GAC.

For a solution, I have put them on server's bin directory as copying them in bin directory does not change the modified date.

Not sure why putting the file in GAC would change the modified date to a date when it was placed there.

Anyway, I have a solution so its all fine.

Thanks again for your help

[techgnome]

Because that's the GAC's way of saying "Hey the copy I haver is good as of the date it was dropped into here...." which means it's possible to load an older version of an assembly into the GAC.... ick... the implications of that...

-tg