AJAX on free hosting

a lot of ISP's offer free hosting, you expect a little less for a free account, however I did not expect that the MIME type for .xml files would be text/plain. I was blown away! That was enough for req.status != 200. While some browsers support an override of MIME type, IE does not. So bottom line, no AJAX support. However if you are using a free host, you are not going to have server-side scripts touching the XML either. So hard coding the data into the document worked just fine for me.