I am having Ajax issues with IE (6, 7 & 8).
I am using the Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) v1.6.1 which works fine in FF, GC, Opera and Safiri.
In IE it throws the error:
System error: -1072896658.
Breaking on JS error on line 157 (self.response = self.xmlhttp.responseText;).
/* Simple AJAX Code-Kit (SACK) v1.6.1 */
/* 2005 Gregory Wild-Smith */
/* www.twilightuniverse.com */
/* Software licenced under a modified X11 licence,
see documentation or authors website for more details */
function sack(file) {
this.xmlhttp = null;
this.resetData = function() {
this.method = "POST";
this.queryStringSeparator = "?";
this.argumentSeparator = "&";
this.URLString = "";
this.encodeURIString = true;
this.execute = false;
this.element = null;
this.elementObj = null;
this.requestFile = file;
this.vars = new Object();
this.responseStatus = new Array(2);
};
this.resetFunctions = function() {
this.onloading = function() { };
this.onloaded = function() { };
this.onInteractive = function() { };
this.onCompletion = function() { };
this.onerror = function() { };
this.onFail = function() { };
};
this.reset = function() {
this.resetFunctions();
this.resetData();
};
this.createAJAX = function() {
try {
this.xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e1) {
try {
this.xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e2) {
this.xmlhttp = null;
}
}
if (! this.xmlhttp) {
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
this.xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
} else {
this.failed = true;
}
}
};
this.setVar = function(name, value){
this.vars[name] = Array(value, false);
};
this.encVar = function(name, value, returnvars) {
if (true == returnvars) {
return Array(encodeURIComponent(name), encodeURIComponent(value));
} else {
this.vars[encodeURIComponent(name)] = Array(encodeURIComponent(value), true);
}
}
this.processURLString = function(string, encode) {
encoded = encodeURIComponent(this.argumentSeparator);
regexp = new RegExp(this.argumentSeparator + "|" + encoded);
varArray = string.split(regexp);
for (i = 0; i < varArray.length; i++){
urlVars = varArray[i].split("=");
if (true == encode){
this.encVar(urlVars[0], urlVars[1]);
} else {
this.setVar(urlVars[0], urlVars[1]);
}
}
}
this.createURLString = function(urlstring) {
if (this.encodeURIString && this.URLString.length) {
this.processURLString(this.URLString, true);
}
if (urlstring) {
if (this.URLString.length) {
this.URLString += this.argumentSeparator + urlstring;
} else {
this.URLString = urlstring;
}
}
// prevents caching of URLString
this.setVar("rndval", new Date().getTime());
urlstringtemp = new Array();
for (key in this.vars) {
if (false == this.vars[key][1] && true == this.encodeURIString) {
encoded = this.encVar(key, this.vars[key][0], true);
delete this.vars[key];
this.vars[encoded[0]] = Array(encoded[1], true);
key = encoded[0];
}
urlstringtemp[urlstringtemp.length] = key + "=" + this.vars[key][0];
}
if (urlstring){
this.URLString += this.argumentSeparator + urlstringtemp.join(this.argumentSeparator);
} else {
this.URLString += urlstringtemp.join(this.argumentSeparator);
}
}
this.runResponse = function() {
eval(this.response);
}
this.runAJAX = function(urlstring) {
if (this.failed) {
this.onFail();
} else {
this.createURLString(urlstring);
if (this.element) {
this.elementObj = document.getElementById(this.element);
}
if (this.xmlhttp) {
var self = this;
if (this.method == "GET") {
totalurlstring = this.requestFile + this.queryStringSeparator + this.URLString;
this.xmlhttp.open(this.method, totalurlstring, true);
} else {
this.xmlhttp.open(this.method, this.requestFile, true);
try {
this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=ISO-8859-1;")
this.xmlhttp.setRequestHeader('User-agent' , 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible) Naruki');
} catch (e) { }
}
this.xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
switch (self.xmlhttp.readyState) {
case 1:
self.onloading();
break;
case 2:
self.onloaded();
break;
case 3:
self.onInteractive();
break;
case 4:
if(self.xmlhttp.status==200){
**self.response = self.xmlhttp.responseText;**
//console.log(self.xmlhttp.responseText);
self.responseXML = self.xmlhttp.responseXML;
self.responseStatus[0] = self.xmlhttp.status;
self.responseStatus[1] = self.xmlhttp.statusText;
}
else{alert("Problem retrieving XML data")}
if (self.execute) {
self.runResponse();
}
if (self.elementObj) {
elemNodeName = self.elementObj.nodeName;
elemNodeName.toLowerCase();
if (elemNodeName == "input"
|| elemNodeName == "select"
|| elemNodeName == "option"
|| elemNodeName == "textarea") {
self.elementObj.value = self.response;
} else {
self.elementObj.innerHTML = self.response;
}
}
if (self.responseStatus[0] == "200") {
self.onCompletion();
} else {
self.onerror();
}
self.URLString = "";
/* These lines were added by Alf Magne Kalleland ref. info on the sack home page. It prevents memory leakage in IE */
delete self.xmlhttp['onreadystatechange'];
self.xmlhttp=null;
self.responseStatus=null;
self.response=null;
self.responseXML=null;
break;
}
};
this.xmlhttp.send(this.URLString);
}
}
};
this.reset();
this.createAJAX();
}