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what is the shortest possible why to manually get an http request object

December 07, 2007 1:35pm

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#1 / Dec 07, 2007 1:35pm
Sally D
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is this the shortest possible way to manually create an ajax object
```
ajax=(window.XMLHttpRequest)?new XMLHttpRequest():(window.ActiveXobject)?new ActiveXobject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"):false;
```
Other then using an ajax library what other way is shorter then that?
#2 / Dec 07, 2007 10:06pm

ct323
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Depending on the version of MSXML installed you may have to create an “Msxml2.XMLHTTP” object. Your code also doesn’t support IceBrowser which uses createRequest(). You may also want to include some try catch blocks for the case when ActiveX is present but disabled. If you don’t care about the aforementioned then your code looks about as short as it’s going to get.