Jquery ajax, when periodicaly called, doesnt work on IE8

Question

I am currently doing the same ajax request using jQuery every 2sec. For some reason, on IE8 it only work the first time. Each following request automatically seems to go to

Answer 1

IE has a caching feature... it's possible that it has just cached your request. Make sure you append something like a random number to your query string, like so:

var url = "/yoururl.html";
url = url + "&random=" + Math.random();