JQuery external Ajax call not working in IE

Question

I have an ajax script that sends some data to an external URL. The external URL is hosted on the same server, however the domain is different than the source of the ajax cal

Answer 1

A couple of things:

• The answers/conversation for this question has gone a bit out of context. Actually from the question it was more implied how to make ajax calls in IE. [Atleast modify the question title, else the question is very localized]

A couple of solutions to this cross-domain issue:

1. CORS[compatible after IE7]
2. JSONP [ here actually the browser takes in the input thinking it is a script]
3. server side encoding