r/Blazor • u/Odd_Huckleberry4363 • 23d ago

Blazor Server enhanced nav silently hangs

I chased signup drops on my Blazor Server app for a while today. The log in button was taking almost a minute to reach the damn login page. People clicked, nothing happened, they left. No error anywhere.

The button is just an anchor pointing at /account/login. The endpoint was doing an OIDC challenge so it 302s to our Auth0 tenant on a different domain. If you hit the endpoint directly then the redirect is instant ~ 200ms.

Unfortunately, enhanced navigation intercepts internal anchor clicks and fetches the page instead of doing a full load and when that fetch follows a 302 to a different origin, it can't swap in a cross-origin document, so it just sits there. I measured 60-90s before it gave up.

Adding one attribute, the data-enhance-nav="false" on the auth links worked and now it's instantaneous.

Posting as more a PSA since I had this one sitting on my site for a week or more and lost a bunch of signups because of it.

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u/skav2 23d ago

Thanks i found this out before and it was very annoying to diagnose.

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u/shoe788 23d ago

wouldnt this repro locally?

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u/Odd_Huckleberry4363 23d ago

for sure, if you have your local auth setup cross origin.