User:Hippietrail/hippajax.js
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// abstract function to do xmlhttprequest
function ajax(url, on200, on404) {
var req = window.XMLHttpRequest ? new XMLHttpRequest() : new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
req.open('GET', url, true);
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
if (req.status == 200) {
// TODO handle xmlhttprequest cache bug in some msie versions
if (req.responseText == '') {
on404();
} else {
on200(req);
}
} else if (req.status == 404) {
on404();
} else {
debugPrint('bad rsc status ' + req.status + '\n');
}
}
};
req.send(null);
}