> Thanks for your reply. After doing some testing I found out that both
> (IE and FF) return OK. So the request is actually fully functional.
> However I did found out that the problem apparently has something to
> do with the var xmlDoc (which contains http_request.responseXML) in FF
> this works just fine but in IE it returns object expected.

> I myself don't see the problem, does anyone of you do?

> Thanks for the help so far.

> On Feb 3, 3:13 am, "Eric Pascarello" <alienf@gmail.com> wrote:

> > status and statusText

> > Eric

> > On 2/2/07, Yorian <yorianbenja@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > > Hi,

> > > At the moment I'm trying to get data from a different server, however
> > > since this is not possible when using ajax (if requesting xml) I have
> > > a script in php that does the request from my own server. When I do my
> > > ajax request in Firefox everything works and I can see the data which
> > > is returned by the request however it doesn't work in IE. My script:

> > > function makeRequest(d,e) {
> > >        var http_request = false;

> > >        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
> > >                http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
> > >                if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
> > >                        http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
> > >                        // See note below about this line
> > >                }
> > >        } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
> > >                try {
> > >                        http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
> > >                } catch (e) {
> > >                        try {
> > >                                http_request = new ActiveXObject("
> > > Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
> > >                        } catch (e) {}
> > >                }
> > >        }

> > >        if (!http_request) {
> > >                alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
> > >                return false;
> > >        }

> > >        var url = 'the WORKING url here';
> > >        http_request.onreadystatechange = function()
> > > { get_data(http_request); };
> > >        http_request.open('GET', url, true);
> > >        http_request.send(null);

> > > }

> > > function get_data(http_request) {
> > >        if(http_request.readyState == 1){
> > >                var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
> > >                var loading = document.createElement('p');
> > >                var loadText = document.createTextNode('Loading...');
> > >                loading.appendChild(loadText);

> > >                loading.className = 'load';
> > >                loading.style.position = 'absolute';
> > >                loading.style.left = '50%';
> > >                loading.style.top = '50%';
> > >                loading.style.width = '150px';
> > >                loading.style.display = 'block';
> > >                loading.style.backgroundColor = '#fff';
> > >                loading.style.borderColor = '#aaf';
> > >                loading.style.borderStyle = 'solid';
> > >                loading.style.borderWidth = '2px';
> > >                loading.style.textAlign = 'center';
> > >                loading.style.padding = '5px';
> > >                loading.style.color = '#aaa';

> > >                body.appendChild(loading);
> > >        }

> > >        if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
> > >                var body = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
> > >                for(i = 0; i < body.childNodes.length; i++){
> > >                        if(body.childNodes[i].className == 'load'){
> > >                                node = body.childNodes[i];
> > >                                node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
> > >                        }
> > >                }

> > >                // for-statement below seems to be needed since it doesn't
> > > always
> > > work with one
> > >                for(i = 0; i < body.childNodes.length; i++){
> > >                        if(body.childNodes[i].className == 'load'){
> > >                                node = body.childNodes[i];
> > >                                node.parentNode.removeChild(node);
> > >                        }
> > >                }

> > >                if (http_request.status == 200) {
> > >                        var xmlDoc = http_request.responseXML;

> > >                        var a = document.getElementById('a');
> > >                        var b = document.getElementById('b');
> > >                        var c = document.getElementById('c');

> > >                        a.value = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName
> > > ('a')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
> > >                        b.value = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName
> > > ('b')[0].firstChild.nodeValue;

> > >                        changeInputStyles(a,'do');
> > >                        changeInputStyles(b,'do');
> > >                } else {
> > >                        alert('There was a problem with the request.');
> > >                }
> > >        }
> > > }

> > > Can anybody tell me why it is not working in IE?

> > > Another question:
> > > Is there for IE something like there is for Firefox that shows the
> > > request and returned data and an error if something goes wrong? (It's
> > > an extension in FF)