AJAX post request, from and to the same webpage - does not work in IE6
Hello,
After a lot of research I found out that doing an AJAX post request,
in which the page that the request originates from and the page that
is requested are the same, does fail in IE6.
So f.e. page test.php contains javascript which sends an AJAX post
request (in my case as the result of a form submit) to test.php.
test.php now returns a different version of itself (without the AJAX
request). This is, as far as I know, pretty common practice. It works
for all browsers I tested (FF2, IE7, Opera9, Safari3), except for IE6.
IE6 throws an exception ("The download of the specified source has
failed") at the following line:
xml.send(s.data); // $.ajax at line 2388 of jQuery version 1.2.1
unpacked
I've been working with jQuery for a while and this is the first I
notice this issue. Have the developers of jQuery ever heard of it? Is
it inevitable or am I missing something?
Curious for a developers point of view...
Tim Molendijk