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();

Answer 2

Just so you know $.ajax has a cache attribute that, when set to false does exactly what Jason is doing, namely, includes a random parameter that means no requests get cached. It's a little more elegant than doing it yourself

Answer 3

I have just encountered the same thing and have fixed it by setting the "cache" property of your ajax function call to false.

        $.ajax({
            url: "/ws/inventory/checkavailability/",
            async: false,
            dataType: 'json',
            cache:false,
            success: function (data) {
                //so something interesting
            }, error: function (error) {
                //display error?
            }
        });