Sends an HTTP request to the server and receives a response.

Syntax

object.send( [varBody])

Parameters

varBody

Optional. Variant that specifies the body of the message being sent with the request.

Return Value

No return value.

Remarks

send was introduced in Windows Internet Explorer 7.

This method is synchronous or asynchronous, depending on the value of the varAsync parameter in the open method call. If synchronous, this call does not return until the entire response is received or the protocol stack time out period expires. If asynchronous, this call returns immediately.

This optional varBody parameter may be a String, array of unsigned bytes, or an XML Document Object Model (DOM) object. For additional information, see send Method (IXMLHTTPRequest).

Standards Information

This method is defined in The XMLHttpRequest Object (W3C Working Draft) .

Applies To

XMLHttpRequest, XMLHttpRequest Constructor

See Also

open, setRequestHeader