Firefox Ajax Bug

Tags: Firefox, Ajax, Bug

Ran into an annoying little firefox bug just yesterday. It seems firefox doesn't pass on headers to subsequent ajax requests if there is a redirect. The header being important as it tells the server that it is an ajax request. To compound the issue, the redirect is handled natively by the brower and there is no way to intercept this to change the behaviour.

This issue came about due to a logged in session expiring, by default the framework will redirect to the login page. I was hoping to return just the login form and not the whole login page if it is an ajax request, but firefox prevents me from detecting it is an ajax request.

Seem to be having a few firefox issues of late, hopefully the workaround isn't too messy.