jQuery ajax problem with IE6

Question

Hi my problem is a bit wired:

my $.ajax success handler looks like:

function(data){
        alert(data);
}

Pretty simple, yeah?

The problem is that data IS ALWAYS 3 character long - no matter what was sent by the server! The characters: 31 65535 8 (using charCodeAt()).

In other browsers (even in IE 8) all works fine.

I've looked at xhr.responseText in complete handler - just the same result.

UPDATE Full http response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:35:39 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10-2ubuntu6.4
Set-Cookie: 1111111111111111=UjVXb1Q3WTdUIQ8jXmALbA88VzpRcVcgBzMDcldyUmtWawAyAFpQP1IwASEAbFh%2FDjoLZ1RiBWlWdwBnUGMHZlU2UGBTZFA5B2UMMlJgC29SbVdjVDRZOVRsDzReaQtuDzpXZVFjV2UHYwM1VzNSNlYzAG4AMVAwUjUBIQBsWH8OOgtlVGAFaVZ3AD5QIgdcVWVQNlNhUHIHMAwjUiQLL1JvVyZUOVk8VGkPal54C2wPNVcyUX1XYgdgAzlXL1IzVioAbQA3UG9SdgE4ACRYNg4xC2RUagVxViAAJFA3B3FVW1AzU2JQZQc7DCRSdQs2UidXb1Q2WT1UYA9yXhcLMg92V2lRP1c%2FBzcDLlc1UixWNAB8AC1QNVI7AW4AJ1htDnQLPVQyBT9WMABsUHIHTlVXUBtTQFAgB20MflJnCzZSdFcCVGpZY1Q%2BDz9eLQsuDyxXTlEHV3MHYAMvVzBSOVYmAGcAdlBsUmUBMABtWC4ObAs1VCMFJ1YKADZQMQd3VW1QJFNsUHQHLAxyUmwLflJuV2RUM1k3VHgPYV5oC2sPOVc1UWdXagdgAzBXOVIgVj8AIQ%3D%3D; expires=Tue, 07-Feb-2012 13:35:39 GMT; path=/
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 21
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

1

UPDATE ! Well, problem temporary? solved by disabling gzip in .htaccess

Answer 1

The characters you get look weird, but could it be that it's a BOM? It's none of the ones listed in the article, but maybe getCharCode() gets something wrong.

In that case, you would have to check the script you call to request the data. Try saving it explicitly without a BOM.

Answer 2

Hi ,

this is most times an problem with propper encoding of the requested content / displayed content.

Please verify that both use the same format.