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**XMLHttpRequest** is an objects to interact with servers. You can retrieve data from a URL without having to do a full page refresh. XMLHttpRequest is used heavily in Ajax programming. - [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest)
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## XMLHttpRequest
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**XMLHttpRequest** is an objects to interact with servers. You can retrieve data from a URL without having to do a full page refresh. XMLHttpRequest is used heavily in Ajax programming - [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest).
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So what is Ajax?
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**Ajax** is a method of exchanging data with a server, and updating parts of a web page without reloading the entire page.
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Let's diving a bit deeply into the code:
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Let's diving into the code:
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First, we need to make an instance from 'XMLHttpRequest' class.
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First, we need to make an instance from 'XMLHttpRequest' object.
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```javascript
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var http =newXMLHttpRequest();
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```
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When we are doing a request it goes through 5 states:
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* 0 : request not initialized.
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* 0 : request is not initialized.
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* 1 : request has been set up.
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* 2 : request has been sent.
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* 3 : request is in process.
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* 4 : request is complete.
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In the code below we are checking if the request is complete or not, and we check the status == 200 just to make sure that we do not get 404 error. - Take a look about [HTTP Status Code](https://httpstatuses.com).
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In the code below we are checking if the request is complete or not, and we check the status == 200 just to make sure that we do not get 404 error - Take a look about [HTTP Status Code](https://httpstatuses.com).
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```javascript
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http.onreadystatechange=function() {
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if ( http.readyState==4&&http.status==200) {
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console.log(`Response from the server: ${http.response}`);
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console.log('Response from the server: '+http.response);
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}
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}
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```
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There are methods to deal with a server like (GET, POST, UPDATE, DELETE…)
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* GET: to retrieve data from server.
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* POST: to send data to server.
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* UPDATE: to update data on the server.
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* DELETE: to delete date from the server.
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* GET: retrieve data from server.
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* POST: send data to server.
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* UPDATE: update data on the server.
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* DELETE: delete date from the server.
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To Initialize a request we use [open][https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/open] method. The syntax is:
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To initialize a request we use [open](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/open) method. The syntax is:
The parameters 'method' and 'url' are mandatory, 'user' and 'password' are optional. True is a default value for 'async'.
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The parameters _method_ and _url_ are mandatory, _user_ and _password_ are optional. True is a default value for _async_.
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```javascript
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http.open("GET", URL, true/false);
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```
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At the end we have to send our request to the server through [send](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/send) method. In our situation we are retriving a data from the server, so we do not have to pass any parameter to the send request.
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At the end we have to send our request to the server through [send](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/send) method. In our situation we are retrieving a data from the server, so we do not have to pass a parameter to the send request.
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