Head Rush Ajax

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ajax requests

function updatePage() {

if (request.readyState == 4) {

/* Get the response from the server */

var customerAddress = request.responseText;

/* Update the HTML web form */

}

}

If the ready state is “4”, the browser will have put the server’s response in the

request object’s responseText property:

The browser will store the

server’s reponse in the

responseText property.

The server

is returning

the

customer’s

address.

Get the server’s response from the request object

Blueprints, revisited

You haven’t fogotten about the diagram and notes you drew up for developing

the Break Neck application, have you? Take a moment to look back at what

you wrote down on pages 73, and see how that compares to the steps

we’ve taken so far. This is your chance to make a few more changes before

we hit the home stretch.

In the space below, write down what you think still needs to happen to

complete the Break Neck application.