XMLHttpRequest question.

Hobbes

Ok when I run this the responseText is set as "undefined". It should be text. Anyone know what I'm missing?

var gXMLHttpRequest;

function loadUp() {
	gXMLHttpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
	gXMLHttpRequest.onload = updateID;
	gXMLHttpRequest.open("GET", "http://members.boards.ie/dokkaebi/pmtest.txt");
	gXMLHttpRequest.send(null);

//	window.setTimeout(loadUp, 1800000);
}

//window.setTimeout(loadUp, 1000);

function updateID()
{
  	var pageText = XMLHttpRequest.responseText;
  	alert(pageText);
}

Hobbes

Ack so bloody simple, amazed I missed it

Someone at mozilla told me...

var pageText = gXMLHttpRequest.responseText;

Farls

Always the simple ones take the longest to figure! Surprised a noob didn't get it.

"School boy errors" eh!

Farlz

Hobbes

Actually my next question is.. How do you pass a cookie to the site your accessing?

Trying to access usercp, however all it gets is the not logged in page, yet the browser is logged in.

Talliesin

Hobbes wrote:

Actually my next question is.. How do you pass a cookie to the site your accessing?

HTTP Headers for the request can be set with the setRequestHeader method.

Hobbes

Cheers. appears there is a little more involved then that. I'll post solution once I get it working.

Hobbes

Here it is. Once you activate the cookie manager and pull in the cookies you want then the XMLHttpRequest will pull the required cookies from that. Example below pulls all boards.ie cookies before requesting userCP.

function getQueryString() {
	// Get the cookie.
	var ioService = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService);
	var cookieManager = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/cookieService;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsICookieService);
	var uri = ioService.newURI("http://www.boards.ie", null, null); 
	cookieString = cookieManager.getCookieString(uri, null);
	
	gXMLHttpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
	gXMLHttpRequest.onload = updatePMCheck;
	
	gXMLHttpRequest.open("GET", "http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/usercp.php?");
	gXMLHttpRequest.send(null);
}