function makeRequest(url) {
	var httpRequest;
	url = url.substring(0,url.length-1)+document.getElementById("printdate").value

	if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...
		httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
		if (httpRequest.overrideMimeType) {
			httpRequest.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
			// See note below about this line
		}
	} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
		try {
			httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
		} catch (e) {
			try {
				httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
			} catch (e) {}
		}
	}

	if (!httpRequest) {
		alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
		return false;
	}
	httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(httpRequest); };
	httpRequest.open('GET', url, true);
	httpRequest.send(null);

}

function alertContents(httpRequest) {
	try {
		if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) {
			if (httpRequest.status == 200) {
				var rspText = httpRequest.responseText;
				var oResponseArray = rspText.split("##");
				if (oResponseArray.length != 0){
					if (oResponseArray[0] == 1){
						document.getElementById('newspopup').style.display = 'block'
						document.getElementById('newspopup').innerHTML = ""
						document.getElementById('newspopup').innerHTML = oResponseArray[1]
					}else if (oResponseArray[0] == 2){
						document.getElementById('peoplepopup').style.display = 'block'
						document.getElementById('peoplepopup').innerHTML = ""
						document.getElementById('peoplepopup').innerHTML = oResponseArray[1]
					}else if (oResponseArray[0] == 3){
						document.getElementById('bookingpopup').style.display = 'block'
						document.getElementById('bookingpopup').innerHTML = ""
						document.getElementById('bookingpopup').innerHTML = oResponseArray[1]
						document.getElementById('txtAttendee1').focus();
					}
				}
			} else {
				alert('There was a problem with the request.');
			}
		}
	}
	
	catch( e ) {
		alert('Caught Exception: ' + e.description);
	}
}