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

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