function fnMakeRequest(url, divID) {
  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) {
    document.getElementById(divID).innerHTML = "AJAX failure";
    return false;
  }
  httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() {
    fnGetContents(httpRequest, divID);
  };
  httpRequest.open('GET', url, true);
  httpRequest.send(null);
}


function fnGetContents(httpRequest, divID) {
  if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) {
    if (httpRequest.status == 200) {
      document.getElementById(divID).innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText;
    } else {
      document.getElementById(divID).innerHTML = "Request failure";
    }
  }
}