Pita/etherpad-lite — pull request #961 by Wikinaut (2012-08-27 18:59:34+00:00)
Title: Fix ie8 native xmlhttp support disabled issues rebased onto master

As requested in https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite/pull/958#issuecomment-7866117 , here's the pull request as hot fix for master.