internet explorer outputs nothing when doing jQuery AJAX .get call - other browsers are fine

Question

Hi guys, i hope you can help me with this one. The code is supposed to display mysql data using a php script returning XML (the backend script works fine delivering good XML - checked with my previous question on Stack Overflow).

I'm using jQuery 1.4.2 to do a .get AJAX call - and i just can't get Internet Explorer to display even a bit. Chrome, Safari, Chromium, FireFox and Opera work just fine here - i wonder what i did wrong ?

I checked the problem about IE and jQuery and i found this piece of code that could help but it doesn't work :

 function parseXml(xml)
  { 
    if (jQuery.browser.msie)

      {
        var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); 
        xmlDoc.loadXML(xml);
        xml = xmlDoc;
      }

    return xml;
  }

Is there anything i can do to display my posts in Internet Explorer?

I put an "alert" at the beginning of the xml parsing function but Internet Explorer never gets there to display alert. Other browsers do. It seems it doesn't even execute the

`function(xml) { bazinga_getposts(xml); }` 

from jQuery .GET

Thanks for any idea! The IE version is 8

Here is the full code:

var ajax_content_left=$("#ajax_content_left");
var ajax_content_left_pagination=$('#ajax_content_left_pagination');

function parseXml(xml)

    {   
        if (jQuery.browser.msie)
            {
                var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); 
                xmlDoc.loadXML(xml);
                xml = xmlDoc;
            }

        return xml;
    }


$.get("bazinga_blob/getposts.php",

    { 

        category:"1", 
        post_tags:"", 
        language:"pl", 
        author:"1", 
        posts_per_page:"2", 
        current_page:"1", 
        order:"desc", 
        hard_limit:"", 
        show_hidden:"1" 

    }, function(xml) { bazinga_getposts(xml); },'xml'); 



function bazinga_getposts(xml) 

    {   

        alert('found it');

        thexml=$(xml);
        thexml=parseXml(thexml);

        var fill_this='';
        var fill_pagination='';
        var ile_stron=thexml.find('LastPage').text();

        thexml.find('Post').each(function()

            {

                fill_this+='<h1>'+thexml.find('PostTitle').text()+'</h1>';
                fill_this+='<article>'+thexml.find('PostBody').text()+'</article>';

            });


        for (i=1;i<=ile_stron;i++)

            {

                fill_pagination+='<li><a href="#'+i+'">'+i+'</a></li>';     

            }



        ajax_content_left.append(fill_this);
        ajax_content_left_pagination.append(fill_pagination);       

    }

Answer 1

Maybe the returned content is invalid XML; see if it works with plain text. Also, try setting an error callback. If all else fails, you can try to debug it via Microsoft Script Editor.

Answer 2

Discovered!

Thanks for help, i started digging the php script again and i found here: http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/ajax-jquery/2 a line that was missing: it was the:

header("Cache-Control: no-cache");

that was necessary to start displaying stuff in Internet Explorer

See you :)