title: jquery .get/.post not working on ie 7 or 8, works fine in ff
body: <p>I have basically this on a page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  function refresh_context() {
      $("#ajax-context").html("Searching...");
      $.get("/ajax/ldap_search.php", {cn: $("#username").val()}, function(xml) {
          $("#ajax-context").html($("display", xml).text());
          $("#context").val($("context", xml).text());
      }, 'xml');
  }
  $(document).ready(function() {
      $("#username").blur(refresh_context);
  });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;input type="text" name="username" id="username" maxlength="255" value="" /&gt;
  &lt;input type="hidden" name="context" id="context" value=""/&gt;
  &lt;div id="ajax-context"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What it should do (and does fine on Firefox) is when you type a username in to the #username field, it will run /ajax/ldap_search.php?cn=$username, which searches our company's ldap for the username and returns it's raw context and a formatted version of the context like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;result&gt;
      &lt;display&gt;Staff -&amp;gt; Accounting -&amp;gt; John Smith&lt;/display&gt;
      &lt;context&gt;cn=jsmith,ou=Accounting,ou=Staff,ou=Users,o=MyOrg&lt;/context&gt;
  &lt;/result&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The formatted version (display) goes to the div #ajax-context and  goes to the hidden input #context. (Also, the -> are actually -  "&amp; g t ;" (without spaces)).</p>
  
  <p>However, on IE the div stays stuck on "Searching..." and the hidden input value stays blank.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried both .get and .post and neither work. I'm sure it's failing on the .get because if I try this, I don't even get the alert:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$.get("/ajax/ldap_search.php", {cn: $("#username").val()}, function() {
      alert("Check");
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also, IE doesn't give me any script errors.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Added "$(document).ready(function() {", the .blur was already in it in my code, but I forgot to  include that in my post.</p>
  
  <p>Edit 2: The request is being sent and apache2 is receiving it:</p>
  
  <pre><code>10.135.128.96 - - [01/May/2009:10:04:27 -0500] "GET /ajax/ldap_search.php?cn=i_typed_this_in_IE HTTP/1.1" 200 69
  </code></pre>