jQuery 1.4.2 regression in Internet Explorer XMLHttp ?

[carpii]

This is an odd problem, but can be reproduced reliably (and has been by many of my users)

I cant describe it very well, so its best I supply an example file.

Summary

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Clicking one of the buttons does an ajax post. All works fine in firefox.

In internet explorer 7 and 8, and jquery 1.4.2, the buttons will fail with a jQuery exception.

The exception occurs when it tries to create an XMLHTTPObject, and the error is 'object does not support this property or method)

Usually if you force a reload of the page, by holding SHIFT+refresh, oddly, the buttons will then start working.

Then go to the browser address bar, and hit enter so its basically using a cached copy, and the buttons will fail again.

The reload issue is not actually cache related that I can tell. Disabling the browser cache completely produces the same results (?!).

Reverting to jquery 1.2.6 resolves the problem (although there might be later versions which work too)

[carpii]

HTML file demonstrating XMLHttp exception problem

[carpii]

Reduced the test case even further, so its just a link, and not a graphical button image. Problem description is summarised in attached HTML

[snover]

Duplicate of Bug #6298.