Fix #11369 (#11403)

Clear contents of iframe clone that is in a Window so that when it's reattached to DOM we don't get 404

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/client/src/main/java/com/vaadin/client/ui/window/WindowConnector.java b/client/src/main/java/com/vaadin/client/ui/window/WindowConnector.java
index aa244c7888..feb34e502e 100644
--- a/client/src/main/java/com/vaadin/client/ui/window/WindowConnector.java
+++ b/client/src/main/java/com/vaadin/client/ui/window/WindowConnector.java
@@ -326,6 +326,23 @@ public class WindowConnector extends AbstractSingleComponentContainerConnector
                 }
                 return newEl;
             }
+
+            if ("iframe".equalsIgnoreCase(old.getTagName())
+                    && old.hasAttribute("src")
+                    && old.getAttribute("src").contains("APP/connector")) {
+                // an iframe reloads when reattached to the DOM, but
+                // unfortunately, when newEl is reattached, server-side
+                // resource (e.g. generated PDF) is already gone, so this will
+                // end up with 404, which might be undesirable.
+                // Instead of the resource that is not available anymore,
+                // let's just use empty iframe.
+                // See
+                // https://github.com/vaadin/framework/issues/11369
+                // for details of the issue this works around
+                Element newEl = old.cloneNode(false).cast();
+                newEl.setAttribute("src", "about:blank");
+                return newEl;
+            }
         }
         Node res = node.cloneNode(false);
         if (node.hasChildNodes()) {