The script works fine in all browsers except IE... I think IE keeps caching the data so ajax isn't working. Any ideas?

This is the script I'm using

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--  
function test(){
    var ajaxRequest;
      try{
          ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } catch (e){
          try{
            ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        } catch (e) {
            try{
                ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e){
                  alert("You don't have javascript?!");
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
      ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function(){
        if(ajaxRequest.readyState == 4){
            var ajaxDisplay = document.getElementById('screen');
            ajaxDisplay.innerHTML = ajaxRequest.responseText;
        }
    }
    var itemid = document.getElementById('itemid').value;
    var type = document.getElementById('type>').value;
    var outbound = document.getElementById('outbound').value;
    var inbound = document.getElementById('inbound').value;
    var queryString = "?itemid=" + itemid + "&outbound=" + outbound + "&inbound=" + inbound + "&type=" + type;
    ajaxRequest.open("GET", "sendmsg.php" + queryString, true);
    ajaxRequest.send(null); 
}
//-->
   setInterval(test, 1000);
   </script>

I've got an ajax library too... jquery... so if anyone can help convert the above script into jquery that would be greatly appreciated =) and I think that'll probably fix my IE problem too

and I think that'll probably fix my IE problem too

No it won't
IE has problems with reusing the XMLHTTPObject. Basically it doesn't, so looping around to call a remote function will work once, then fail on subsequent calls.

You have to do a bit of javascript "jiggery-pokery" to make it work. see -
http://keelypavan.blogspot.com/2006/...ect-in-ie.html

Originally Posted by chrishirst

No it won't
IE has problems with reusing the XMLHTTPObject. Basically it doesn't, so looping around to call a remote function will work once, then fail on subsequent calls.

You have to do a bit of javascript "jiggery-pokery" to make it work. see -
http://keelypavan.blogspot.com/2006/...ect-in-ie.html

"jiggery-pokery" lol sounds like fun... I'll give it a try

I also noticed from the past that if I modify the code slightly then upload it, the file magically works for a while... then when I upload the same file again sometime later it stops. Will this be fixed in IE 8 or future versions?

thanks

I had lots of "fun" making it work, or rather making it work was fairly straightforward, getting around the obscure "undocumented feature" that affects IE6 on Win2k (which just happens to be my OS of choice) was the "interesting" bit.

I also noticed from the past that if I modify the code slightly then upload it, the file magically works for a while... then when I upload the same file again sometime later it stops. Will this be fixed in IE 8 or future versions?

that sounds like a caching "issue"