XMLHttpRequest’s in Internet Explorer 5 and 6

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Internet Explorer versions 5 and 6 did not define the XMLHttpRequest object identifier in their scripting languages as the XMLHttpRequest identifier itself was not standard at the time of their releases.

The following JavaScript encapsulation is used to provide a backward compatibility with these browsers :

 
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest == "undefined") 
  XMLHttpRequest = function () 
    { try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0"); } 
      catch (e) {} 
    try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); } 
      catch (e) {} 
    try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } 
      catch (e) {} 
    //Microsoft.XMLHTTP points to Msxml2.XMLHTTP and is redundant 
    throw new Error("This browser does not support XMLHttpRequest."); 
};