> > Hi all.

> > I would like to take the onreadystatechange method, and make it
> > private. Please could someone tell me what I need to do? I am guessing
> > I'd need to somehow copy the constructor of the XMLHttpRequest object,
> > into the prototype of an empty object and perhaps edit it from there?
> > I would appreciate it if anyone could give me a quick example of how I
> > might achieve this.

> > In case anyone is wondering why I would like to do something like
> > this, the reason is quite simple.

> > For my needs, onreadystatechange should be made private, and it will
> > be overridden by a function called onrequestcomplete. As I don't need
> > to know the various stages of the communication with the server, I
> > only want it to be passed to the external function for processing once
> > it's complete. The onrequestcomplete method will also handle any
> > errors the server might throw.

> > Needless to say, that I am looking to create a custom object and not
> > actually override anything on the original object itself.

> > Many thanks in advance.

> > Daz.

> Just write a wrapper class that has a request object as a
> member, write what methods you need to expose, just
> call the appropriate one on the request object with the same
> arguments. If you need to expose properties use getters
> and setters.

> ---
> Geoff