Internet Explorer calling [removed] on window.open and AJAX calls

Question

Ok, I have spent a while on this problem and this is what I have gathered:

1. If you make an AJAX call in IE7 and you have a window.onbeforeunload function spe

Answer 1

OK, I have been having this issue. I have a (rather messy) work around for it.

In my case, I want to block navigation away sometimes, and not others.

So, I am setting a flag on the window to tell me if I want it blocked. So where you are doing your window.open, just before that, do 'window.allowExit=true' then in the onbeforeunload, check for window.allowExit = true.

I have the java script (SHowHelp) being kicked off from a link:

HERE

onbeforeunload is called BEFORE the ShowHelp, so i used the onclick to set the flag

HERE

Ugly as sin, but it seems to work!