XMLHTTPRequest object Question -- dotnet xml

Elizabeth Harmon
5/12/2005 12:00:00 AM

Good Evening,

I am new to the XMLHTTPRequest Object and it's use but i am doing pretty
good with it since it's realtively simple?
I am having one problem in using a Get method.

I am requesting an aspx file that contains some controls, intersoft Web
Combo to be exact. This control is a drop downlist control that renders it's
contents in an XML file structure. When i do a
XMLHTTPRequest("GET",URL,true), the response text is sent back but there are
backslashes next to all the double quotes the control produces for it's own
content. I tried a RegEx approach to striping out the \\"/g then replace
with " it replaces fine but when i try to replace the " back to
double quotes, the html in the response text looks like the original text
that i had alread stripped out.???? I have no control over the double quote
or the backslash it seems. The controls dont function properly with the
" that's why i do a regex back. I basically just want all backslashes
out of the ResponseText.

My Regex Expression is /\\/g or \\"/g

Is this a function of the XMLHTTPRequest.Response.text that it seems to
be escaping with a \ all double quotes it finds?
How can i correct this so i can use the XMLHTTPRequest Object to just return
aspx pages that have these controls on it?
the Content type is set to text/xml, i am using IE6 on an intranet.

Please Help i am swiftly going bald over it and i didnt look good with hair
anyway, imagine what Bald will do to my dating rituals?

TIA

Alex Krawarik [MSFT]
5/25/2005 10:36:41 AM

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Hi Elizabeth,

In a word, no, it's not XMLHTTPRequest that is padding your response text
with the back slashes. The responseText is simply the stream that is sent
back from the Web server, XMLHTTP does not alter response body at all - its
just not that smart...it would mean parsing the content and understanding
it. (To verify this you can simply request the same page using WinHTTP, and
compare the response you get back to that of XMLHTTP.)

I am not familiar with Intersoft Web Combo, but it sounds like the control
itself is emitting that content, and that web browsers are permissive enough
to render it correctly? Now, if your response content is well-formed XML,
you could simply access the responseXML property to get a DOMDocument...but
it sounds like you are doing HTTP / HTML stuff.?

In that case MSXML is just overhead for you, you should use WinHTTPRequest.
Its API is very similar, and it does not incur the same XML processing
overhead that MSXML does.

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