Bug found using $location and html5mode

[AndreasHeintze]

In the console I get the error "Cannot read property 'indexOf' of undefined" when I try to use $location in html5mode. See this page http://www.outnorth.se/scandinavian-outdoor/produktinfo-test.php

From what I can see the problem is that AngularJS thinks the base Href must be a part of the URL, but that is not the case in our CMS we are using. This must be a bug in Angular. You must support this.

The base href on the page above is:

<base href="http://www.outnorth.se/1.0.1.0/1546/1/">

That is the real URL to a page displaying a product, but the same page is used for many different products and we are using URL rewriting to give each product a nice URL. Note that this is not the real page used to display all products, it's just a page I did setup to display the problem.

[caitp]

This seems related to #2805 --- however we still don't have a good way to do this yet. It's been discussed and proposed, but yeah...

[AndreasHeintze]

Hey! What is happening with this? Are you going to implement a tag for this or what is the best solution? I am using a CMS, where it's out of my hands to alter the base-href-tag, so that is not an option and even if I could change it, it would bring me other problems. So it's not the solution. I need to be able to set a base URL for the $location service. Since I have a webshop and I have one page that is used to show every product I sell. The URL is different for every product, but it's still the same page being used.

Some examples of URL's to some products:
http://www.outnorth.se/haglofs/astro-q-jacket.php
http://www.outnorth.se/keen/venice-h2-w.php?group=prod_prod_grp-s1/2435#color=Black

I have turned $location off on the page above, just because it doesn't work. But I want the URL to change when I select another variant of the product. (another color or size). In browsers not supporting this I want it to fallback to changing the hash instead.

As I said in my first post above, I have put up a page just for you to see the error I get.
http://www.outnorth.se/scandinavian-outdoor/produktinfo-test.php

Should I give up and not use Angulars $location to change the URL and make my own solution or are you going to solve this problem anytime soon?

Thank you for listening.
Andreas

[caitp]

solutions have been proposed, Igor didn't like the imperative fix, so I guess we do need a directive --- but if I recall he had other issues with it, like he wanted us to resolve urls relative to our custom base url for $http, and it wasn't really clear how that would work.

This has been discussed at length but I guess we've never really decided on how this should properly "work"

[AndreasHeintze]

If I change the method baseHref to the code below, it all works for me. Both in html5mode in a modern browser and in IE8. What is your say about this?

  self.baseHref = function() {
    if ($sniffer.history) {
      return "/";
    } else {
      var url = this.url();
      var initialUrl = serverBase(url);
      return url.replace(initialUrl, '');
      //var href = baseElement.attr('href');
      //return href ? href.replace(/^(https?\:)?\/\/[^\/]*/, '') : '';
    }
  };

I did also make this change some rows below the code above:

var cookiePath = '/'; //self.baseHref();

Not sure if it matters though...

[AndreasHeintze]

After making the above changes I discovered another bug in IE8. Since I had links on my page without the attribute href, only ng-click, I got the error-msg that the variable href was undefined, so I fixed the bug with the code below:

        //if (href.indexOf('://') < 0) {         // Ignore absolute URLs
        if (typeof href !== 'undefined' && href.indexOf('://') < 0) { // Modified by Andreas Heintze

The code is found in the function below:

  /**
   * @ngdoc event
   * @name $location#$locationChangeSuccess
   * @eventType broadcast on root scope
   * @description
   * Broadcasted after a URL was changed.
   *
   * @param {Object} angularEvent Synthetic event object.
   * @param {string} newUrl New URL
   * @param {string=} oldUrl URL that was before it was changed.
   */

  this.$get = ['$rootScope', '$browser', '$sniffer', '$rootElement',
      function( $rootScope,   $browser,   $sniffer,   $rootElement) {

[jeffbcross]

@AndreasHeintze the offending change in your most recent comment only exists in the master (1.3) branch, which doesn't support IE8: 49e7c32