Emulate Gecko "XMLHttpRequest()" functionality in IE and Opera. Opera requires the Sun Java Runtime Environment <http://www.java.com/>.
by Andrew Gregory http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/webdesign/xmlhttprequest/
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Not Supported in Opera ---------------------- * user/password authentication * responseXML data member
Not Fully Supported in Opera ---------------------------- * async requests * abort() * getAllResponseHeaders(), getAllResponseHeader(header)
*/ // IE support if (window.ActiveXObject && !window.XMLHttpRequest) { window.XMLHttpRequest = function() { var msxmls = new Array( "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP", "Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); for (var i = 0; i < msxmls.length; i++) { try { return new ActiveXObject(msxmls[i]); } catch (e) { } } return null; }; } // Gecko support /* ;-) */ // Opera support if (window.opera && !window.XMLHttpRequest) { window.XMLHttpRequest = function() { this.readyState = 0; // 0=uninitialized,1=loading,2=loaded,3=interactive,4=complete this.status = 0; // HTTP status codes this.statusText = ""; this._headers = []; this._aborted = false; this._async = true; this._defaultCharset = "ISO-8859-1"; this._getCharset = function() { var charset = _defaultCharset; var contentType = this.getResponseHeader("Content-type").toUpperCase(); val = contentType.indexOf("CHARSET="); if (val != -1) { charset = contentType.substring(val); } val = charset.indexOf(";"); if (val != -1) { charset = charset.substring(0, val); } val = charset.indexOf(","); if (val != -1) { charset = charset.substring(0, val); } return charset; }; this.abort = function() { this._aborted = true; }; this.getAllResponseHeaders = function() { return this.getAllResponseHeader("*"); }; this.getAllResponseHeader = function(header) { var ret = ""; for (var i = 0; i < this._headers.length; i++) { if (header == "*" || this._headers[i].h == header) { ret += this._headers[i].h + ": " + this._headers[i].v + "
"; } } return ret; }; this.getResponseHeader = function(header) { var ret = getAllResponseHeader(header); var i = ret.indexOf("
"); if (i != -1) { ret = ret.substring(0, i); } return ret; }; this.setRequestHeader = function(header, value) { this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:header, v:value}; }; this.open = function(method, url, async, user, password) { this.method = method; this.url = url; this._async = true; this._aborted = false; this._headers = []; if (arguments.length >= 3) { this._async = async; } if (arguments.length > 3) { opera.postError("XMLHttpRequest.open() - user/password not supported"); } this.readyState = 1; if (this.onreadystatechange) { this.onreadystatechange(); } }; this.send = function(data) { if (!navigator.javaEnabled()) { alert("XMLHttpRequest.send() - Java must be installed and enabled."); return; } if (this._async) { setTimeout(this._sendasync, 0, this, data); // this is not really asynchronous and won"t execute until the current // execution context ends } else { this._sendsync(data); } } this._sendasync = function(req, data) { if (!req._aborted) { req._sendsync(data); } }; this._sendsync = function(data) { this.readyState = 2; if (this.onreadystatechange) { this.onreadystatechange(); } // open connection var url = new java.net.URL(new java.net.URL(window.location.href), this.url); var conn = url.openConnection(); for (var i = 0; i < this._headers.length; i++) { conn.setRequestProperty(this._headers[i].h, this._headers[i].v); } this._headers = []; if (this.method == "POST") { // POST data conn.setDoOutput(true); var wr = new java.io.OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream(), this._getCharset()); wr.write(data); wr.flush(); wr.close(); } // read response headers // NOTE: the getHeaderField() methods always return nulls for me :( var gotContentEncoding = false; var gotContentLength = false; var gotContentType = false; var gotDate = false; var gotExpiration = false; var gotLastModified = false; for (var i = 0; ; i++) { var hdrName = conn.getHeaderFieldKey(i); var hdrValue = conn.getHeaderField(i); if (hdrName == null && hdrValue == null) { break; } if (hdrName != null) { this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:hdrName, v:hdrValue}; switch (hdrName.toLowerCase()) { case "content-encoding": gotContentEncoding = true; break; case "content-length" : gotContentLength = true; break; case "content-type" : gotContentType = true; break; case "date" : gotDate = true; break; case "expires" : gotExpiration = true; break; case "last-modified" : gotLastModified = true; break; } } } // try to fill in any missing header information var val; val = conn.getContentEncoding(); if (val != null && !gotContentEncoding) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Content-encoding", v:val}; val = conn.getContentLength(); if (val != -1 && !gotContentLength) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Content-length", v:val}; val = conn.getContentType(); if (val != null && !gotContentType) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Content-type", v:val}; val = conn.getDate(); if (val != 0 && !gotDate) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Date", v:(new Date(val)).toUTCString()}; val = conn.getExpiration(); if (val != 0 && !gotExpiration) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Expires", v:(new Date(val)).toUTCString()}; val = conn.getLastModified(); if (val != 0 && !gotLastModified) this._headers[this._headers.length] = {h:"Last-modified", v:(new Date(val)).toUTCString()}; // read response data var reqdata = ""; var stream = conn.getInputStream(); if (stream) { var reader = new java.io.BufferedReader(new java.io.InputStreamReader(stream, this._getCharset())); var line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { if (this.readyState == 2) { this.readyState = 3; if (this.onreadystatechange) { this.onreadystatechange(); } } reqdata += line + "
"; } reader.close(); this.status = 200; this.statusText = "OK"; this.responseText = reqdata; this.readyState = 4; if (this.onreadystatechange) { this.onreadystatechange(); } if (this.onload) { this.onload(); } } else { // error this.status = 404; this.statusText = "Not Found"; this.responseText = ""; this.readyState = 4; if (this.onreadystatechange) { this.onreadystatechange(); } if (this.onerror) { this.onerror(); } } }; }; } // ActiveXObject emulation if (!window.ActiveXObject && window.XMLHttpRequest) { window.ActiveXObject = function(type) { switch (type.toLowerCase()) { case "microsoft.xmlhttp": case "msxml2.xmlhttp": case "msxml2.xmlhttp.3.0": case "msxml2.xmlhttp.4.0": case "msxml2.xmlhttp.5.0": return new XMLHttpRequest(); } return null; }; }