Re: need help withXMLHTTPreq and parsing response

I might clarify by saying I'm getting the raw text with request.responseText
and I'm not interested in parsed xml.

"jason pollard" <jasonpollard@[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi, it's my first post here.
>
> I'm grabbing a byte stream with XMLHTTPRequest.  Normally, the stream is
> processed in a java applet as a byte stream.  Most of the data comes in as
> expected, but an occassional character seems to be garbled.  For example,
> looking at the stream contents in Venkmann, I can see something like this:
> SE\x07\x03\u8220\x67
> All the characters are recognized normally, but the Unicode one.  In this
> case the \u8220 should be (int)147.  I guess what I'm looking for is some
> insight as to how the data is parsed by the XMLHTTPRequest object and how
I
> may convert the misrecognized characters to what they're supposed to be.
> I've tried overriding the MIME type to x-application/octet-stream and
> everything else I can think of, but it's always the same.
> Any ideas?  THanks in advance,
>
> --Jason
>
>