[plt-scheme] Re: Broken pipe communicating with Javascript XMLHttpRequest

Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at yahoo.com> writes:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm having a problem communicating with a JavaScript
> XMLHttpRequest object from a servlet.  If I send a GET
> request to a servlet synchronously from the XMLHttpRequest
> object everything works.  If I send it asynchronously the
> request bombs.  The readyStatus property gets set to 4, but
> the status property is not set, and there is no
> responseText.  

I've had the same problem.  First suggestion: make sure that the
server is sending the reply back with a content type of "text/xml".

John