System.Web.HttpException: This is an invalid script resource request

Question

I get this error when pushing our website to our clients production server however the page works absolutely fine on their dev / test servers. What causes this error (consideri

Answer 1

I used to get this annoying error all the time. Users are indeed affected by this error. We used to get complaints of pages not loading properly. After trying many things like adding DOCTYPE the error did not go away completely. Then we tried storing all the VIEWSTATEin session. Violà no more errors. If your application has a bloated view state like ours then you will see this error in the logs. Often.