IE8 treats json response as file and tries to download it

Question

I am using IE8 and I am sending ajax request to on of the url which sends back response as json. The jquery code for the ajax setup is given below:

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Answer 1

I modified the url of your code and used the latest version of JQuery and it runs fine within IE8 for me

There is a known issue as detailed in this answer where IE8 has problems with an extra comma in a result array. Check the contents of the response alert for this.