Sebastian Rittau

Tag: AJAX

  • Porting JavaScript to Internet Explorer

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    While porting a small AJAX application I wrote to Internet Explorer, I encountered a few problems: IE doesn’t like <script> tags without a matching closing tag. This is especially a problem if you use the src attribute and try to use an XHTML-like closing tag like this: <script src=”…”/> In this case IE doesn’t draw anything at all, since…

  • Apache, cgi-bins, and the Authorization header

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    I had a problem: Server A runs a web service, which requires users to authenticate using the standard HTTP authentication mechanism. Server B should have web pages that use AJAX to query A’s web services. Server B’s web pages also require authentication, using the same scheme, backend and database as server A. There are two problems:…