(IE9) Html 5 hashbang redirect causes controller to load twice

[worldspawn]

Hey, i have an app with html5 mode on. When a user clicks an external link (like from an email for example) to my application, eg: http://localhost:52388/confirm/GxPsil6Qra-qAp43VlKz0baE1MotUO4RcaAC7lGZkiAyweiweEh5HJNPV0vaNAcI6SEFgjW_5JjxhsuJBIAa1g2

In ie9 it gets rewritten as http://localhost:52388/#/confirm/GxPsil6Qra-qAp43VlKz0baE1MotUO4RcaAC7lGZkiAyweiweEh5HJNPV0vaNAcI6SEFgjW_5JjxhsuJBIAa1g2/

Sadly this also causes the controller I have associated with this route to load twice. In my scenario this controller immediately makes a post to the server to confirm something so its essentially confirming it twice. It doesn't happen with no ng-view in the page... although that's not very useful.

If the user navigates in with the url already hash banged then theres no problem

[vojtajina]

Hmmm, I'm not sure if we can fix this. Any ideas?
We could probably make sure $location does the full page reload before compiler instantiates anything...

Can you use the hashbang url? (That should rewrite to a regular url on browsers that support it, however without full page reload).

[worldspawn]

Yeh i figured out using the hashbang url works and am doing that for the time being. It does have an element of suck to it though, as does any IE related compromise. For whatever reason it doesn't cause the same problem with chrome despite its url changing from /#/confirm to /confirm

But I agree having the location do the full reload before the compiler gets busy is the way to go.

[linclark]

It sounds like this one is resolved. Let me know if that's wrong and I'll reopen.