Viewer pane keeps previous page content

[JulioCollazos64]

Hi everyone

I am wondering if I am misusing the viewer pane or is there something else?

This opens on the viewer pane:

shiny::runExample("01_hello", port = 8000)

Now try to navigate to a different url, say http://127.0.0.1:8000/something

This updates the viewer pane content but also keeps the content from the previous page ("/"):

Shouldn't the previous page content be removed?

[juliasilge]

Thank you for this report! 🙌

Are you saying you manually navigate to a new URL in the Viewer pane by typing in the box? Can you say a bit more about the use case here, i.e. why you are doing that?

[JulioCollazos64]

Hi @juliasilge thanks for your response, yes I'm manually changing the URL, writing the new path and pressing enter.

I'm using the viewer pane as a convenient mini web browser to test some multipage web applications using the ambiorix web framework, but the same problem might happen on plumber or other related web frameworks on R, I find it easier to understand how a real user would use the web application by doing this manually.

Thank you for your work on Positron!
Best,

[juliasilge]

Thanks so much, @JulioCollazos64! I can reproduce this problem and have opened #9323 to track and prioritize a fix.