Posting in the background - getting html response?

[JMR]

How do I post to a server in the background and capture the html it spits back? This code re-driects to the server:

function go() 
{
document.cps.action = "http://remote_server_URL:PORT" 
document.cps.submit();
}
 

...and using the XMLhttp method below gives me a server timed out error:

function go2() {
 
var oXMLHTTP = new ActiveXObject( "Microsoft.XMLHTTP" );
var shipinfo = escape(itemlist);    
var sURL = ("http://206.191.4.228:30000?XMLRequest=" + shipinfo);
document.writeln(sURL);
oXMLHTTP.open( "POST", sURL, false );
 
oXMLHTTP.send();
 
document.writeln(oXMLHTTP.responseText);
 
}
 

Any suggestions or methods to accomplish this? Please? It is basically a hidden form that posts XML data (one hidden tag in the form) and receives an answer to the data as HTML (a table) which is to be displayed.

Thanks,
JMR

[acoder]

You can't use document.writeln after the page has loaded.

When using POST, the parameters should be sent using the send method - see a basic AJAX example.