Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - DOM Reference

responseText Property (IXMLHTTPRequest)

Represents the response entity body as a string.

[Script]

Script Syntax

strValue = oXMLHttpRequest.responseText;

Example

var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0");
xmlhttp.open("GET", "http://localhost/sample.xml", false);
xmlhttp.send();
alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
[Visual Basic]

Visual Basic Syntax

strValue = oXMLHttpRequest.responseText

Example

Dim xmlhttp As New Msxml2.XMLHTTP50
xmlhttp.open "GET", "http://localhost/sample.xml", False
xmlhttp.send
MsgBox xmlhttp.responseText
[C/C++]

C/C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_responseText(BSTR* pbstrBody);

Parameters

pbstrBody [out, retval]
The response entity body as a string.

C/C++ Return Values

S_OK
The value returned if successful.
E_PENDING
The value returned if the data is unavailable.

Remarks

Variant. The property is read-only. This property represents only one of several forms in which the HTTP response can be returned.

IXMLHTTP attempts to decode the response into a Unicode string. It assumes the default encoding is UTF-8, but can decode any type of UCS-2 (big or little endian) or UCS-4 encoding as long as the server sends the appropriate Unicode byte-order mark. It does not process the <? XML coding declaration. If you know the response is going to be XML, use the responseXML property for full XML encoding support.

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See Also

responseBody Property | responseStream Property | responseXML Property

Applies to: IXMLHTTPRequest