Methods in the Ajax engine object:
Abort () Stop the current request
getAllResponseHeaders () returns the complete headers as a string
getResponseHeader ("Headerlabel") returns a single header label as a string
Open ("Method", "URL" [, asyncflag[, "UserName" [, "Password"]]) establishes a call to the server. The method parameter can be a GET, post, or Put,url parameter can be a relative URL or an absolute URL
Send (content) sends a request to the server
setRequestHeader ("header", "value") sets the specified header to the supplied value and must call open () before any header is set.
Properties in the Aaja engine object
onReadyStateChange event triggers with state changes
ReadyState Object State (integer)
0= uninitialized 1= Read 2 = read 3= interaction 4 = complete
ResponseText The server process returns a text version of the data
Responsexml a compatible DOM XML Document object that returns data to the server process
Status code returned by the status server, such as: 404 = "File not found", 200 = "Success"
StatusText status text information returned by the server
Using AJAX to request a server
Ways to use the Ajax engine
Common ways of interacting with browsers
How Ajax interacts with browsers