function GetXMLHttpRequest() 
{
    var object = null;
    
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) 
    {
        object = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } 
    else if (window.ActiveXObject) 
    {
        try
        {
            object = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
        }
        catch(e)
        {
        }
        
        if (object == null)
        {
            try
            {
                object = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            catch(e)
            {
            }
        }
    }
    
    if (object == null)
    {
        alert("Your browser does not support AJAX");
    }
    
    return object;
}

function updateContent(btc,title)
{

var req = null; 

// document.getElementById("ajax").innerHTML="Started...";
 
 if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
 {
 req = new XMLHttpRequest();
 if (req.overrideMimeType) 
 {
 req.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
 }
 } 
 else if (window.ActiveXObject) 
 {
 try {
 req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
 } catch (e)
 {
 try {
 req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
 } catch (e) {}
 }
  }


  req.onreadystatechange = function()
  { 
//   document.getElementById("ajax").innerHTML="Wait server...";
  if(req.readyState == 4)
  {
  if(req.status == 200)
  {
  document.getElementById("ajax").innerHTML=req.responseText;
  }
  else
  {
  document.getElementById("ajax").innerHTML="Error: returned status code " + req.status + " " + req.statusText;
  }
  } 
  }; 
  url="/cgi-bin/s?btc="+btc+"&title="+title;
  req.open("GET", url, true); 
  req.send(null); 
  } 

function Set_Cookie( name, value, expires, path, domain, secure ) 
{
// set time, it's in milliseconds
var today = new Date();
today.setTime( today.getTime() );

/*
if the expires variable is set, make the correct 
expires time, the current script below will set 
it for x number of days, to make it for hours, 
delete * 24, for minutes, delete * 60 * 24
*/
if ( expires )
{
expires = expires * 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
}
var expires_date = new Date( today.getTime() + (expires) );

document.cookie = name + "=" +escape( value ) +
( ( expires ) ? ";expires=" + expires_date.toGMTString() : "" ) + 
( ( path ) ? ";path=" + path : "" ) + 
( ( domain ) ? ";domain=" + domain : "" ) +
( ( secure ) ? ";secure" : "" );
}

// this fixes an issue with the old method, ambiguous values 
// with this test document.cookie.indexOf( name + "=" );
function Get_Cookie( check_name ) {
// first we'll split this cookie up into name/value pairs
// note: document.cookie only returns name=value, not the other components
var a_all_cookies = document.cookie.split( ';' );
var a_temp_cookie = '';
var cookie_name = '';
var cookie_value = '';
var b_cookie_found = false; // set boolean t/f default f

for ( i = 0; i < a_all_cookies.length; i++ )
{
// now we'll split apart each name=value pair
a_temp_cookie = a_all_cookies[i].split( '=' );
// and trim left/right whitespace while we're at it
cookie_name = a_temp_cookie[0].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');

// if the extracted name matches passed check_name
if ( cookie_name == check_name )
{
b_cookie_found = true;
cookie_value = unescape( a_temp_cookie[1].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') );
return cookie_value;
break;
}
a_temp_cookie = null;
cookie_name = '';
}
if ( !b_cookie_found )
{
return null;
}
}