AjaxResponseText length problem

[ds111]

Hi.

 

  I am using responseText to get a reply from a PHP Script. In php script, I echo "Hello". I expect responseText.length to be 5, but i am getting 15 on Firefox, and 315 on Internet Explorer. The first five characters of responseText is Hello, but the rest are not printable. In PHP i am using

header("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8");

 

What is the problem? And why is FF and IE different?

[corbin]

What exactly is the response text in both browsers?

[ds111]

In both browsers, the text appears as "Hello                      " and a lot of unprintable characters that look like spaces in an alert box.

[corbin]

Something is probably messed up in the PHP script then.