Problem
When I try to request a partial AJAX update (using the UpdatePanel control) from the default page on the IIS7 website, it does not work - instead of returning html for the update, it returns the whole page, which then calls MS AJAX Javascript to quit parsing.
Supposed reason
I narrowed down the cause to two problems - an AJAX request to the default page when I have a specific http user module registered. The partial http: // localhost rendering request will fail, but the partial http: //localhost/default.aspx rendering request will work fine. Also, if I delete the following line in my custom HttpModule:
_application.PreRequestHandlerExecute += OnPreRequestHandlerExecute;
AJAX partial rendering will work correctly. Wierd huh
Another weird thing ...
If I look at trace.axd, I see that when a partial rendering request fails, two POST requests are logged for one partial rendering request - the one where the default.aspx page successfully executes (trace information , such as page_load, is registered), but the content is not created, and the second, which is not actually executed (trace information is not registered), but creates the content (HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH is greater than 0).
Please, help! If anyone who knows the HTTP modules or the MS AJAX Http module well can explain why this is happening, I would really appreciate it. Be that as it may, the obvious work of arround is simply to redirect to default.aspx if the request URL is "/", but I would really like to understand why this is happening.