need Serious help with forced JS from AJAX with Norton 2005

[docholiday]

Apparently, this specific combo: Norton Internet Security 2005 / Internet Explorer 6.0 (I assume lower versions of IE as well) blocks forced JavaScript calls from AJAX.

i.e. I use a custom CMS to pull chunks of HTML code from my database ("templates") and throw them back to the browser via AJAX (prototype 1.5) when things are clicked in the browser by the user. Prototype supports sending javascript also at the same time alongside regular HTML.

This works great everywhere, except that Norton 2005 (no other versions) blocks passed JavaScript in Internet Explorer (not Firefox).

Example ("template1") :

<div style="text-align:center;">some text</div> <script type="text/javascript">doThisFunction();</script>

new Ajax.Updater('placeholder', '/this/template1', {asynchronous:true, evalScripts:true});

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I have no other way of doing what I need to do.

[docholiday]

I know I'm replying to my own topic here, but I figured it out for those who need help on this later (I promise you will if you send any javascript through Norton's sticky fingers via AJAX).

Apparently, Internet Exploder (not a typo) is requiring the header of the type of information being sent in the call for Norton [firewall] to allow it to pass scripted data (no idea why), so here is what I came up with.

In the PHP, just before I write out my custom template call from the database, I send the header of the type of content I am sending, like this:

header('Content-Type: application/octetstream');

Hope this helps anyone else!!