White Screen of Death (WSOD) in Browser
- by nickyt
Here's the specs:
ASP.NET 3.5 using ASP.NET AJAX
AJAX Control Toolkit
jQuery 1.3.2
web services
IIS6 on Windows Server 2003 SP1
SP1 SQLServer 2005 SP3 Site is SSL
Here's the problem:
I'm getting the White Screen of Death (WSOD) in pretty much any browser (at least FireFox and IE 7/8).
We have an application that uses one popup window for updating records. Most of the time when you click on the [Edit] button to edit a record, the popup window opens and loads the update page. However, after editing records for a while, all of a sudden the popup window will open, but it stays blank and just hangs. The URL is in the address bar.
Loading up Fiddler I noticed that the request for the update page is never sent which leads me to believe it's some kind of lockup on the client-side. If I copy the same URL that's in the popup window into a new browser window, the page generally loads fine.
Observations:
- Since the request is never sent to the server, it's definitely something client-side
- Only appears to happen when there is some semblance of traffic on the site which is weird because this appears to be contained within client-side code
- There is a web service being called in the background every few seconds checking if the user is logged on, but this doesn't cause the freeze.
I'm really at a loss here. I've googled WSOD but not much seems to appear related to my specific WSOD. Any ideas?
