Server issues with spry

Question

Are there any things server side that would stop spry scripts from running correctly? I have been testing locally and on my own server with no issues, and then when attempting to deploy on my works server, It will not work correctly.
http://www.remarkablestags.com/auction/tb5.html
This should be pulling in the data from the xml file, and has worked perfectly throughout development, yet now is failing.!
Thanks!
RIchard

Answer 1

Couple of things come to mind
1. Create yourself an admin page where you can upload new xml files but also switch off the refresh during the upload or
1. You can switch off the upload by creating an application variable that is checked in a server page to see if refresh is active.  If it is then it returns "refresh" else it returns "donorefresh"
2. In Spry to send a request to the Server page via loadurl with a callback function to check the value, if refresh then reload xml dataset.
Here's extracts from some of pages a wrote for an online forum which conceptually does this (asp is the server side stuff I know)
// Send request to server page
function Refreshme()
    var req = Spry.Utils.loadURL("GET", "refresh.asp", true, MySuccessCallback);
// Process server page response
function MySuccessCallback(req)
  // Refresh data if response says there are newer posts than noload
  newpost = req.xhRequest.responseText;
  if (newpost != "NoLoad")
     latesttopics.setURL('serverside/latestJSON.asp?cache=' + (new Date()).valueOf());
     latesttopics.loadData() ;
    //alert(newpost);    
// latest topics is the Spry dataset variable
// set refresh Interval
window.setInterval('Refreshme()',30000);
Server Page Code
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<%
' Phil Whitehurst
' March 2009
' Forum rewrite
' Seperate ASP code from Forum HTML Layout
' Check last post and only indicate reload data if newer post than the last post seen by this user
if application("last_post") > session("last_post") then
  session("last_post") = application("last_post")
  response.write("Load")
else
  response.write("NoLoad") 
end if
%>
application last post variable holds a date / time in format yyyymmddhhmmss
Hope this is enough for you to think about / apply
Regards
Phil