Odd behaviour when clicking on title hyperlink

And sometimes you get caught on that splash page, from a variety of places, and can't get beyond it without clearing the cached images and files for the browser. In those cases, the url is for the record you are trying to display and not for the home (splash) page -- https://gapines.org/eg/staff/cat/catalog/record/1472631 as opposed to https://gapines.org/eg/staff/ -- but redisplaying won't retrieve the record. Going back and clicking the link again won't either.

I can usually reproduce the issue on a 3.1 test server by retrieving record 78 and clicking the title link in record summary. The link URL is /eg/staff/cat/catalog/record/78. When I click it, console debug logs include the following sequence:

egEmbedFrameLoader(): https://dev1.catalogue.libraries.coop/eg/staff/%7B%7Burl%7D%7D (eframe.js:112)
eframe applying xulG handlers: reload (eframe.js:293)
SplashCtrl (VM2657 app.js:153)
egEmbedFrameLoader(): https://dev1.catalogue.libraries.coop/eg/opac//record/78 (eframe.js:112)
eframe applying xulG handlers: reload (eframe.js:293)
record id changed to 78, loading new holdings (app.js:1035)

It looks like that first call to egEmbedFrameLoader is trying to load "/eg/staff/{{url}}" which is not a valid route, so we get bounced to the default route for the base app, i.e. the splash page. Then egEmbedFrameLoader is called again with the correct path for the OPAC iframe. I don't know yet why this is happening (seems like a template is not being parsed correctly?), but I wonder if we can fix the issue by preventing that initial incorrect load.

I can confirm the problem on Chrome. I can also confirm that the problem does not happen on Firefox.

(on Evergreen 3.0.2-ish)

Evergreen 3.1

I can confirm that the problem does not happen on Firefox.

Ben Holt pointed out that similar-sounding issues have been encountered before by the Angular community. Examples:

https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/23427
https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/7477 (potential mitigation strategies)
https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/16994 (maybe??)

There is discussion of similar-sounding issues in bug 1731272. I tested the fix from that bug's comment #13 but it didn't fix the issue in this bug (I still inconsistently get the splash page during record retrieval).

We are also experiencing this issue. When we click on the title, it retrieves the record but then goes to a blank search page. If we refresh the page, it loads the correct record. We are on the web client.

I'm unable to reproduce this behavior using Chrome on 3.7.2, 3.8.1 or 3.9.0.

Marking Won't Fix.