function makeRequest(url, divDest) 
{
    var httpRequest;

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest)  // Mozilla, Safari, ...
    {
        httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
        if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType)
        {
            httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            // See note below about this line
        }
    } else if (window.ActiveXObject)  // IE
    {
        try 
        {
            httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        } catch (e) 
        {
        	try 
        	{
            	httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
        }
    }

    if (!httpRequest) 
    {
        alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
        return false;
    }
    httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(httpRequest, divDest); };
    httpRequest.open('GET', url, true);
    httpRequest.send('');
}

function alertContents(httpRequest, divDest) 
{
    if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) 
    {
        if (httpRequest.status == 200) 
        {
        	var d = document.getElementById(divDest);
        	d.innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText;
        } else 
        {
            alert('There was a problem with the request [' + httpRequest.status + ']');
        }
    }

}