Comments on: Explorer system error: -1072896658

by: zunebest

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:13:56 +0000

“But I have not really tested it, as all my pages are in UTF-8, so I don’t really need any conversion. If you are using ISO latin 1, http://www.zuneconverter.net it’s also accepted by XMLHttpRequest, but again, you should be extremelly careful with the name you give the encoding (respect uppercase characters, hyphens, …).”

by: RycAm

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:09:28 +0000

in case using php. The charset must also be set correctly: default_charset = “utf-8″
And not default_charset = “utf8″.
easy, but I missed it during 1 long day.

by: Matias P.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:18:40 +0000

Joaquin,

Thank you very much for the excelent post… It make my day.
I am form Argentina, greetings.
I have translated the solution to spanish

Regards.

Español/Spanish:

Problema del IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) Error del sistema -1072896658,:

Es muy probable que la página que esté llamando el JavaScript, tenga mal la codificación, en vez de “UTF8″ hay que usar “UTF-8″.

by: Tushar

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:47:56 +0000

throughs an error System error 1072896658

I have declared the object as
var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject(”Msxml2.XMLHTTP”);

it works for IE version 6.0.2600 but not for IE version 6.0.2800.

Pls help me

i coudnlt find out what this error means.

by: loony

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:46:34 +0000

Add a file called .htaccess to your websites rootdirectory if you are using apache (or your isp uses apache) and it’s delivering the wrong charset (like utf8 instead of utf-8 as IE expects it) with the following content:

AddCharset utf-8 .php

(or any other extension that might be useful in your context.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp
and
http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charset
for more information on character encoding issues!

by: Pyronhell

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:33:03 +0000

You can set the content-type with php:

At line 1 of your requested file with XMLHttpRequest
(change text/html with text/plain if required).

See ya!

by: Kuroki Kaze

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:04:11 +0000

THANK YOU MAN!!!!!! It was the encoding…. i had serious troubles with russian language pages (hehehheehe)

by: Eugene

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:41:26 +0000

Thank you!
This post saved my nerves
It was just encoding, damn!

by: Ot4eto

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:49:06 +0000

The Exact command is:
http_request.setRequestHeader(’Content-type’, ‘text/plain;charset=UTF-8;’);

where http_request is instance of XMLHttpRequest object.

by: Philipp Jardas

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:29:54 +0000

Thanks for that concise description of the problem. I hope MSIE would be that verbose… =) For your general amusement: In our current setup we use an Oracle Application Server which does not only send different default encoding headers on different platforms, it even send ISO-8859-1 as “ISO-8859_1″ (note the underscore) which wrecked the pages when requested via AJAX, but not when requested directly. You have to manually set the content type in your servlet or JSP or whatever you are using.