mwrock/RequestReduce — Issue #91: Switching to RR (via Nuget) renders site unusable
Author: HKochniss
Created: 2011-12-30 09:53:24+00:00
State: open

Ok, my setup: newest RR (1.6.52), .NET 3.5 (it's not framework specific, switched to .NETv4 experimentally, bug was the same), WebForms application, old stuff..

Problem: installing RequestReduce scrambles hte Html..
Our site essentially is a lot of old Javascript files, inline javascript, CSS styles, inline CSS, external CSS. Lots of legacy stuff. First I thought the use of iframes was related to the problem, but our Login site doesn't use iframes..

The code in question begins like this

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.. so tables in tables, with some ASP.NET DropDownBoxes, Labels, etc. occuring, but only asp StandardStuff, I removed the custom controls.. as you see.. marvelous! :) The code isn't huge, but definetly ugly.

Once RR is activated, and at least _one_ of the "disable" options for CSS or Javascript is set to false (doesn't matter which, it seems) all that is rendered is .. nothing..

I tried disabling modules, handlers, I removed javascript and/or CSS from the header.. best that happens is that sometimes an empty table is rendered, sometimes the first row of the table.. but nothing more.

So to start, that's what all the debug/analysis options give me:
- dashboard shows nothing suspisious (no recorded failures, it's "sleeping", resources were generated)
- ErrorHandler doesn't work, there is no exception thrown (yes, if compiled the .NET3.5 debug assembly)
- TraceOutput doesn't work either, the TraceOutput.log file is just _empty_ (seems odd.. shouldn't there be at least _anything_?)

I would gladly first fix the trace output, and then I'll try to get a minimalistic example for reproduction (unfortunately can't do that in my work time).