function makeRequest() 
{
		document.getElementById("forajax").innerHTML = '<div style="height:250px; valign:top; text-align=center;">Loading... <img class="ajaxLoader" name="ajaxLoading" id="ajaxLoading" src="../images/loadIng_11.gif" align="center"/></div>';
    	var url = makeRequest.arguments[0];
	//	var opt = makeRequest.arguments[1];    
			
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
            httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
            if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
                httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
                
            }
        } 
        else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
            try {
                httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
                } 
                catch (e) {
                           try {
                                httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                               } 
                             catch (e) {}
                          }
        }

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

function showcontent(httpRequest)
{
	
	if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) 
	{
            if (httpRequest.status == 200) 
			{
			  	document.getElementById("forajax").innerHTML = httpRequest.responseText;		
            } 
			else 
			{
                alert('There was a problem with the AJAX request.');
				
            }
    }
	
}