AJAX with IE8 - returns error c00ce56e

[deukalion]

I've been working with AJAX for a few weeks now but I encountered an error with IE8. Since I Wanted to optimize it with all browsers I figured I needed to fix this.

This works great in Firefox 3 and most recent Chrome.

This connects to my database, searches for galleries and prints out pictures of the galleries.

I've edited http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_ajax_database.asp for my own needs.

This is where the request start:

<select onchange="showGallery(this.value)">
<option value="test">First gallery</option>
</select>

This is the AJAX .js file

var xmlHttp;

function viewGallery(str)
{
	xmlHttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
	if (xmlHttp==null)
	{
		alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request");
		return;
	}
	var url="../../scripts/v2/site_add.php";
	url=url+"?gallery="+str;
	url=url+"&sid="+Math.random();
	xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=stateChanged;
	xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
	xmlHttp.send(null);
}

function stateChanged() 
{
	if (xmlHttp.readyState==4 || xmlHttp.readyState=="complete")
	{ 
 		document.getElementById("container_site_left_main_content_gallery").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;
	} 
}

function GetXmlHttpObject()
{
var xmlHttp=null;
try
 {
 // Firefox, Opera 8.0+, Safari
 xmlHttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
 }
catch (e)
 {
 // Internet Explorer
 try
  {
  xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
  }
 catch (e)
  {
  xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
 }
return xmlHttp;
}

And then in IE8 I get a error c0056e, row 24 error which is this line:

document.getElementById("container_site_left_main_content_gallery").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;

As I've said, this works in every browser but IE8 and I have a similar function for news search and it worked with IE7 now it gives me the same error as the gallery.

Any ideas how to solve this?

I use PHP and AJAX.

[deukalion]

Although I've been having this problem for a while I always end up solving the problem right after I post the problem.

edit /etc/php/php.ini and change

default_charset = "UTF-8"

IE seemed to be very picky about it.
works with FF too.

Damn me!