onReadyStateChange not firing in IE for XHR Request

Question

I have this code that I am using and it works fine in chrome, but in IE, it looks like that onreadystatechenge is not firing.

How do I get this to work cross browser. I

Answer 1

Apparently IE 11 (which I assume is what you are testing is broken) removed script.onreadystatechange in favor of script.onload.

Here is the compatibility for xhr.onload.

Source of IE11 removing it

Answer 2

Your XMLHttpRequest object might be caching.

Try:

var myNoCachePage = document.location + '?' + new Date().getTime();
xhr.open("GET", myNoCachePage, true);  // Prevent IE11 from caching
xhr.send();