AJAX Not Working In Firefox

I have the following javascript which works in either IE or Firefox but
not on both.

When I set the code to

http_request.open('POST', url, true) - Works in IE only
http_request.open('GET', url, true) - Works in Firefox only; Does not
refresh in IE.

How do I resolve this?

Thanks in advance.


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The page that uses AJAX is http://www.ubelt.com

http://www.ubelt.com/ub/apps/ajax/ajaxlatestphotos.js (for Full Code)

function makeHttpRequest(url, callback_function, return_xml)
{
var http_request = false;

if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
}

} 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('Unfortunatelly you browser doesn\'t support this
feature.');
return false;
}
http_request.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
if (http_request.status == 200) {
if (return_xml) {
eval(callback_function +
'(http_request.responseXML)');
} else {
eval(callback_function +
'(http_request.responseText)');
}
} else {
//alert('There was a problem with the request.(Code: ' +
http_request.status + ')');
}
}
}
http_request.open('POST', url, true);
http_request.send(null);
}

re: AJAX Not Working In Firefox

Guestion why don't u use prototype? pretty easy and it work's in every
browser.

http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptac...show/Prototype

example:
new Ajax.Updater('mydiv', '/foo/bar', {method:'post',
postBody:'thisvar=true&thatvar=Howdy', asynchronous:true,
evalScripts:true});

evalScripts on the end means that when the ajax page you are calling
contains for example <script>alert('hello');</scriptit will execute
that the other stuff just echo't will be outputted to mydiv.

i give you this because i stoped using my own crap because this stuff
is alway's working

Hope this helps

Danny R wrote:

re: AJAX Not Working In Firefox

another thing...

stuff like this:
document.getElementById('ajax-latestphotos').innerHTML = html_content;

will become this:
$('ajax-latestphotos').innerHTML=html_content

re: AJAX Not Working In Firefox

Sjigger said the following on 7/18/2006 4:57 AM:You should search the archives for articles about prototype.
No it doesn't.

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re: AJAX Not Working In Firefox

Thanks for the response.

However, any of you guys know why this isn't working on both browsers?
Is there an alternative code that works on both?



Randy Webb wrote:

re: AJAX Not Working In Firefox

Danny R написав:
You can use http_request.responseXML only for appointed content type:

var respType = http_request.getResponseHeader("Content-Type");
if (respType == 'text/xml')
{
// process http_request.responseXML
}
else
{
// process http_request.responseText
}

It may be caused by caching.
Simple solution were posted here
http://groups.google.com.ua/group/co...33ea0f52689067

Instead of
var url = '/ub/apps/ajax/latestphotosxml.aspx';
use
var url = '/ub/apps/ajax/latestphotosxml.aspx?'+ Math.random();