Why does Internet Explorer not send HTTP post body on Ajax call after failure?

Question

We are able to reliably recreate the following scenario:

1. Create a small HTML page that makes AJAX requests to a server (using HTTP POST)
2. Disconnect fr

Answer 1

I had a similar problem today when using $.ajax and was able to fix it by setting async to false.

$.ajax({
  async: false, 
  url: '[post action url]',
  data: $form.serialize(),
  type: 'POST',
  success: successCallback
});