From 498e0e6c9bf486a0b1f16b455d65fcbc6c43867e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Methvin <dave.methvin@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:31:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Ajax: Fix #14424. Use ActiveX in IE9+ on local files, close
 gh-1434.

We can't feature detect ActiveX in IE11, but we can just call
it and catch whatever error occurs, then try normal XHR.
---
 src/.jshintrc   | 3 ++-
 src/ajax/xhr.js | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/.jshintrc b/src/.jshintrc
index ba16cd5db..a601fa051 100644
--- a/src/.jshintrc
+++ b/src/.jshintrc
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 	"globals": {
 		"jQuery": true,
 		"define": true,
-		"module": true
+		"module": true,
+		"ActiveXObject": true
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/ajax/xhr.js b/src/ajax/xhr.js
index 55d526a41..313dff5dc 100644
--- a/src/ajax/xhr.js
+++ b/src/ajax/xhr.js
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ define([
 ], function( jQuery, support ) {
 
 jQuery.ajaxSettings.xhr = function() {
+	// Support: IE9+
+	// IE can't get local files with standard XHR, only ActiveX
+	if ( this.isLocal ) {
+		try {
+			return new ActiveXObject( "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" );
+		} catch( e ) {}
+	}
+
 	try {
 		return new XMLHttpRequest();
 	} catch( e ) {}
-- 
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