Error loading external JavaScript file on Win2k8, IIS7.0
I’m using the following code in the entity’s OnLoad event to load an external JavaScript file in MS CRM.
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function LoadFile(url, cache)
{
var httpRequest = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');
httpRequest.open('GET', url, false);
if (!cache) {
httpRequest.setRequestHeader('If-Modified-Since', 'Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT');
}
httpRequest.send(null);
return httpRequest.responseText;
}
LoadFile('/ISV/scripts/accounts.js', false)
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