function makeRequest(url)
{
		var http_request = false;

		if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
		{ // Mozilla, Safari,...
				http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
		}
		else
		{
			if (window.ActiveXObject)
			{ // IE
				try
				{
						http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
				}
				catch (e)
				{
					try
					{
							http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
					}
					catch (e)
					{
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (!http_request)
		{
				setContents('Giving up Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
				return false;
		}
		http_request.onreadystatechange = function(){ showContents(http_request); };
		http_request.open('GET', url, true);
		http_request.send(null);
}

function showContents(http_request)
{
		if (http_request.readyState == 4)
		{
				if (http_request.status == 200)
				{
						setContents(http_request.responseText);
				}
				else
				{
						setContents('There was a problem with the request.');
				}
		}
}

function setContents(sHTML)
{
	document.getElementById('myCnt').innerHTML = sHTML;
}