function makeRequest(url,outputdiv,showprocessing) {
	var http_request = false;
      if (showprocessing==true)
      {
	      document.getElementById(outputdiv).innerHTML = '<div align="center" style="padding: 10px;"><img src="img/loading.gif" border="0" ALT=""></div>';
      }
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
      { // Mozilla, Safari,...
	      http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
	      if (http_request.overrideMimeType)
	      {
		      http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
	            // See note below about this line
	      }
      }
      else if (window.ActiveXObject)
      {
		// IE
	      try
	      {
		      http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
	      }
	      catch (e)
	      {
        		try
			{
				http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
		      }
		      catch (e)
		      {}
	      }
      }
      if (!http_request)
      {
	      alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance. If you are using old browser, please update it');
            return false;
      }

     // http_request.onreadystatechange = function() { showContent(http_request,outputdiv); };
      http_request.open("GET",url,false);
      http_request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;');
      //  http_request.send(data);
		http_request.send(null);
      document.getElementById(outputdiv).innerHTML= http_request.responseText;
}