# IE6 refuses to allow AJAX requests on page to load

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ie6-refuses-to-allow-ajax-requests-on-page-to-load/90026>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 25, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ie6-refuses-to-allow-ajax-requests-on-page-to-load/90026 "2007-03-25T04:29:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ie6-refuses-to-allow-ajax-requests-on-page-to-load/90026/1 "2007-03-25T04:29:53Z")

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having developed and tested diligently on Firefox and IE6, I am now not  
so pleasantly surprised to find that my ror pages are refused by IE6:

“Some files can harm your computer. If the file information below looks  
suspicious, or you do not fully trust the source, do not open or save  
this file.”

File name :

File type :

From :

Would you like to open the file or save it to your computer?

[Open] [Save] [Cancel] [More Info]"

Unfortunately, all I’m doing is making a call to a ror method, which  
uses

render :update do |page|  
page.replace\_html()  
end

Is this a problem that others have come across? Everything works  
perfectly from my local IP based testing server. It works fine remotely  
on Firefox, just as it does locally. Safari is OK too.

I am sure that there’s something obvious here: I’ve set the server to be  
a trusted site, and it makes no difference. Security set to low. The  
problem seems to be that IE sees the request as a foreign file type, and  
not an xmlHttpRequest…the page is running a Google map in it, and it  
works fine, so AJAXiness per se is not the issue, I don’t think.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@dandiebolt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dandiebolt)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ie6-refuses-to-allow-ajax-requests-on-page-to-load/90026/2 "2007-03-25T04:32:01Z")

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A bit more: the problem may come from appended session data on the  
method name, but I can’t prove it.

In case that helps.