Question

The following code I am using to update a textarea dynamically without reloading the entire page.

It was working last night but stopped working when I tried using it this morning. The alert(request.readyState+" "+request.status) returns 2 0 and 4 0… help?

   <script type="text/javascript">
    function init(){
      var url="http://www.suchandsuch.net/ChatBowl/text.txt";
      var request= new XMLHttpRequest();
      request.open("GET",url,true); 


     request.onreadystatechange= function(){
    //alert(request.readyState+" "+request.status); 
    if (request.readyState ==4 && request.status == 200){
      document.getElementById('textarea').innerHTML=request.responseText;
    }  
  };
    request.send(null);
 }  
var int=self.setInterval('init()', 3000);
</script> 

I sincerely appreciate any help.

Answer 1

It was a URL issue. The logic is sound though.