HTML5Mode - User Session Handling Does Not Work On Manual URLs

[iq-dot]

Hi Guys,

I have an issue where I have turned on HTML5Mode:

$locationProvider.html5Mode(true).hashPrefix('!');

And also the Express re-write:

// Setting the app router and static folder
app.use(express.static(path.resolve('./public')));

// Globbing routing files
config.getGlobbedFiles('./app/routes/**/*.js').forEach(function(routePath) {
    require(path.resolve(routePath))(app);
});

// For HTML5 Mode URL routing
app.all('/*', function(req, res, next) {
    res.render('index');
});

The problem I have is that the site works fine if navigating URLs within it, however if I am logged in and manually enter the URL on the browser e.g. '/settings/profile' then it does not recognise that the user is logged in, however if I go back to the homepage '/' then it recognises the user is logged in.

Doing some debugging it seems the Authentication.user gets unset, however going back to the '/' something sets it again and it will only stay set if navigating via the site only and not entering URLs on the browser.

This code here on the 'Authentication' service:

_this._data = {
user: window.user
};

And this is on the layout.server.view.html (back-end template).

<script type="text/javascript">
    var user = {{ user | json | safe }};
</script>

I guess it seems the above code in layour.server.view is not run due to the full page refresh, while having the hashbang mode, even if you type a URL in the browser, it does not cause a page refresh.

Surely it must be easier to use pretty URLs in HTML5 Mode without the above issues? I can not be the only one who wanted this?

Can anyone suggest what I could be doing wrong here and how I might be able to get it to work with HTML5Mode? I don't get this issue if using the default hashbang mode.

See this SO question for more info:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26309107/angularjs-best-way-to-handle-state-on-manually-entered-urls

[rhutchison]

Did you look at my PR #195?

[iq-dot]

No, I haven't thanks for that, let me check it out

[iq-dot]

Worked like a charm, thanks