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‘no element found’ in firebug or firefox javascript console

Filed Under (software, web) by james on 27-10-2006

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I think I figured it out. I think that the issue crops up if your server sends a response header of ‘Content-Type’ set to ‘text/xml’ and you send no content. The XMLHTTPRequest object then says ‘oh it’s xml? fine - i’ll just PARSE THIS and store it in the reponseXML property.’ At that point, the XML Parser probably bombs and nothing catches it. But anyway that’s just a hunch and I’m only blogging about it because I’m bored. I’ll have test results available later.

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One Response to “‘no element found’ in firebug or firefox javascript console”

  1. romb on 15 Jul 2008 at 9:41 am #

    Solved if content-type of the response is “text/plain” and content is say a space (” “) - empty string doesn’t work.

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