Ok. I have never seen anything like this before and I am quite confused... On a website I am working on, there are two JavaScript includes. (Well, many more, but the problem occurs with only two). We ll call these A.js and B.js.
A.js defines a JavaScript singleton A. Likewise B.js defines a JavaScript singleton B. The B class depends on methods from A.
I have almost all my code wrapped up in try { ... } catch { ... } blocks, and on error, the system generates an AJAX request to email me the details of the error.
On one system here in my office (Firefox 3.0 for Mac) I am seeing the strangest behavior. Once in a while, maybe once every hour or two, but with no specific pattern, I get an error email from class B: "ReferenceError: A is undefined."
I have no idea why/how A would be undefined sometimes. When I look in the apache logs, during the times I receive the error, the client is requesting /A.js, before requesting /B.js, and the server is responding with a 304 (Not Modified)
I somehow suspect the issue is that the file has expired from the client cache however the server doesnt send the file thus it is never executed and A is undefined. But that s just a guess and I don t understand why that would happen. And if I am guessing right, how do I fix it???
If it matters, mod_disk_cache was enabled on the server, and I have disabled it to see if that was causing the problem. If so, maybe this belongs on ServerFault...
Any suggestions very welcome!!