MIME type in the XMLHTTP activeX object

[wh173b0y]

Alright, i`m developing a site for a contest that runs off of
asyncronus HTTP requests(AJAX is the popular term). now i'm using code
that is based strongly off the mozilla developer center's "ajax:getting
started" page found at
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...etting_Started
i`ve tested thier version and it works fine. but when i wrote the code,
opera and FF accepted the code, noteably excluding IE. i've narrowed
the problem to the server, but from there i'm clueless.

when i coppied the example code verbatim to my server and ran it, IE
failed agian. so i suspect that comcast's server is somehow not sending
the correct MIME type becuase the responseXML attribute of the XMLHTTP
activeX object is empty. i know of the FF workaround for this by using
..overrideMimeType(text/xml) but i dont know of an activeX (or
Jscript)counterpart to it.

is there something i need to modify on the server-side to get the
correct MIME types sent?
or is my problem elsewhere

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

wh******@gmail.com wrote:

is there something i need to modify on the server-side to get the
correct MIME types sent?

Yes, you need to serve the resource as text/xml if you want to use
`responseXML' with MSXML. That's a FAQ, and Google is your friend
[psf 6.1]:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=xmlhttp+responsexml>

What to do exactly depends on the server and the server-side application
platform you are using. I suggest you retrieve the response headers of
the request and ask in the appropriate newsgroup.
PointedEars