Stewart

ah - my stupic keyboard - has a dodgy shift key so referencing you Open function was interpreted as open and opened the window, lol. oops. need a new keybard with a shift key that isnt as dodgyanyway: is there any way to avoid permission denied errors when trying to load an external xml feed from another site?

maybe im wrong, but does the set timeout function not take the timeout first then the function name?

thanks. i tried that, but for some reason gives me a popup with the document that is trying to be oopened instead of inserting it into the div

im trying to write a web based rss client usting e4x or ajax's xml comonents to request the xml rss document, the problem is, e4x seems not to do anything at all, and ajax refuses to load the file, with no errors etcis ther another way i can get the contents of a remote xml file using just plain javascript?

i know it has nothing to do with session varialbes, what im trying to do is find the suername of the user visiting the page across a network running win98 using a server running IIS 4.0, will this work?

does the Request.serverVariable("LOGON_USER") server variable return the username of the user logged onto the client machine or the server, and if not the client machine can someone tell me how i would go about doing that please.thanks