Re: Map API stopped working for IE6

Was there any change in the headers/gzip google is using to send the
javascript over? Forcing IE 6 to NOT use HTTP 1.1 seems to solve the
issue, and there is the known IE 6 bug with gzip/iframes/cache-pragma
headers. This appears to fit the symptoms of this bug to a T. Thanks
to dmusick for pointing the HTTP 1.1 solutions (http://
groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api/msg/4287a7303db33eb5) Thought
this may help...

Also, here is our header for the .js grab:

GET /maps?
file=api&v=2&key=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Host: maps.google.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

Content is getting gzip, my guess is this is the issue, but there
isn't much we can do about it client side unfortunately.

On Dec 8, 7:24 pm, "Dann (Google Employee)" <d...@google.com> wrote:
> I've reproduced this issue, which happens somewhat inconsistently.
> We're looking into this, and I'll report back with any updates.
>
> On Dec 8, 12:12 pm, skindogg <bart.skin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Yeah I think i'll use this until the devs come back with something
> > else.  Honestly if someone has IE6, I'd like to redirect them to
> > windows update, but yeah I can't do that.
>
> > On Dec 8, 2:28 pm, Christian <cont...@cb3i.fr> wrote:
>
> > > Try this :It doesn't solve the problem : It's just an inelegant
> > > cheating trick. But it may help while waiting for google reaction.
>
> > > ***************************************************
> > > try {
> > >    GBrowserIsCompatible();}
>
> > > catch (e)
> > > {
> > >    window.location.reload ();
>
> > > }
>
> > > function initialize()
> > > {
> > >    if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) ...
>
> > > ***************************************************
>
> > > On 8 déc, 20:06, Christian <cont...@cb3i.fr> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi
> > > > Same Problem for me. And same solution : pressing the F5 refresh key
> > > > displays the map without warning messages from the debugger !
> > > > I've tried many things : placing the code elsewhere in the page,
> > > > trying with a timer of 5 sec, load theAPItwice,.... but with no
> > > > success.
> > > > I don't understand the solution of Jess (in the previous post).
> > > > However, I've tried it also, but no change.
> > > > I can't affirm that it is a brand new problem, since I'm not testing
> > > > often my apps withIE6. But, the feedback from the people using my
> > > > site is from two days only.
>
> > > > Does someone from the Google dev team read some time this group ?
> > > > Because I think there are the only one that can answer us (if this
> > > > problem is really new)- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

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