Subj : Re: Accessing XMLHttpRequest.responseText causes uncaught exception
To   : Maya Amit
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon May 17 2004 10:19 am

Maya Amit wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm posing a message through XMLHttpRequest in mozilla 1.7b, and when I try
> to access the responseText, I get:
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
> 
> code: 0x80500001 [nsIXMLHttpRequest.responseText]"
> 
> It doesn't happen if I execute it with mozilla 1.5 or with netscape. I
> noticed that there was a bug in previous versions of mozilla
> 
> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120836) - but its status is
> "fixed". Should I reopen the bug?
> 
> Is there anything different with using the XMLHttpRequest from other
> versions of mozilla?


You should ask the right newsgroup, which is not the JavaScript Engine 
group.  See headers, I'm using the DOM newsgroup instead of the XML ng, 
but perhaps I too have picked the wrong group.  Still, you're much more 
likely to get an answer in m.dom than in m.jseng.

/be


> 
> Thanks, Maya
> 
>

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