创建HttpRequest对象

var  http_request  =   false ;
function  send_request(url)  ... {
     if(window.XMLHttpRequest)
     ...{
        http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
        if (http_request.overrideMimeType) ...{
        //http_request.setRequestHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
        }
    }
    else if (window.ActiveXObject)
    ...{
        try ...{
                http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) 
            ...{
                try ...{
                http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                } catch (e) ...{}
            }
    }

    if (!http_request) ...{
    window.alert("cannot create XMLHttpRequest instance");
    return false;
    }
http_request.open("GET", url, true);
http_request.setRequestHeader("If-Modified-Since","0");
http_request.send(null);

}