Get http problem

[andrewds]

Hey I have the following code:

<script>
var http;
function getPage(url)
{
if ((navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft")>-1) ¦¦ (navigator.appName.indexOf("MSIE")>-1))
{
http = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
else
{
http = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
if (http)
{
http.open("get", "sources/mainNav/" + url + ".php");
http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse;
http.send(null);
}
}
function handleResponse()
{
if (http.readyState == 4)
{
var content = http.responseText;
if (content && content!= "")
document.getElementById("innerContent").innerHTML = content;
}
} 
</script>

Then to call it:

<a href="#" onclick="getPage('allproducts');">All Products</a> 

And it should change:

<p id="innerContent"></p>

This works perfectly fine in Firefox 2, but I have tested this script on 3 machines with IE7, and 2 with IE6, and it doesn't change the paragraph inner content.

So just wondering if you know the problem.

Thanks
Andy

[DrDoc]

Perhaps I may suggest a different approach to the "browser sniffing."

<script type="text/javascript"> 
var http= false; 
function getPage(url) 
{ 
if(window.XMLHttpRequest) 
  { 
    // Mozilla, Safari, ... 
    http = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
    if(http.overrideMimeType) 
    { 
      http.overrideMimeType('text/xml'); 
    } 
  } 
  else if(window.ActiveXObject) 
  { 
    // IE 
    try 
    { 
      http = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); 
    } 
    catch (e) 
    { 
      try 
      { 
        http = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); 
      } 
      catch (e) {} 
    } 
  } 
  if (http) 
  { 
    http.open("get", "sources/mainNav/" + url + ".php"); 
    http.onreadystatechange = handleResponse; 
    http.send(null); 
  } 
} 
function handleResponse() 
{ 
  if (http.readyState == 4) 
  { 
    var content = http.responseText; 
    if (content && content!= "") 
      document.getElementById("innerContent").innerHTML = content; 
  } 
} 
</script>

[andrewds]

Thanks for this, however it doesn't work, I think to problem is the program I am using

JQuery and ThickBox, and that IE doesnt support extra javascript/ajax within the box.
But FireFox does, what I shall do is contact the creator of ThickBox to see if he knows of this, and a possible fix to my problem.

Thanks anyway
Andy