How to get the response of XMLHttpRequest?

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Published on 2010-06-14T16:22:13Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 16:42 UTC
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I'd like to know how to use XMLHttpRequest to load the content of a remote URL and have the HTML of the accessed site stored in a JS variable.

Say, if I wanted to load and alert() the HTML of http://foo.com/bar.php, how would I do that?

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