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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/view/js/main.js b/view/js/main.js
index 0aee072f6..ec7964886 100644
--- a/view/js/main.js
+++ b/view/js/main.js
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ var divmore_height = 400;
var last_filestorage_id = null;
var mediaPlaying = false;
var contentHeightDiff = 0;
-
+var liveRecurse = 0;
$(function() {
$.ajaxSetup({cache: false});
@@ -769,6 +769,27 @@ function liveUpdate() {
var dstart = new Date();
console.log('LOADING data...');
$.get(update_url, function(data) {
+
+ // on shared hosts occasionally the live update process will be killed
+ // leaving an incomplete HTML structure, which leads to conversations getting
+ // truncated and the page messed up if all the divs aren't closed. We will try
+ // again and give up if we can't get a valid HTML response after 10 tries.
+
+ if((data.indexOf("<html>") != (-1)) && (data.indexOf("</html>") == (-1))) {
+ console.log('Incomplete data. Reloading');
+ in_progress = false;
+ liveRecurse ++;
+ if(liveRecurse < 10) {
+ liveUpdate();
+ }
+ else {
+ console.log('Incomplete data. Too many attempts. Giving up.');
+ }
+ }
+
+ // else data was valid - reset the recursion counter
+ liveRecurse = 0;
+
var dready = new Date();
console.log('DATA ready in: ' + (dready - dstart)/1000 + ' seconds.');