function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;


      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
         }
      } 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('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
	  
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }
//
   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            result = http_request.responseText;

            var xmlData    = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(result, "text/xml");
            var root       = xmlData.getElementsByTagName('data')[0];
		var i;
		var string;
            string = '';

         } //else {
           // alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         //}
      }
   }


   function get(business, county) {
////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// DOM Parser for IE.  Mozilla and Safari
// already have this object built in
//
// from : http://erik.eae.net/archives/2005/07/03/20.19.18/
//
////////////////////////////////////////////
if (typeof DOMParser == "undefined") {
   DOMParser = function () {}
   DOMParser.prototype.parseFromString = function (str, contentType) {
      if (typeof ActiveXObject != "undefined") {
         var d = new ActiveXObject("MSXML.DomDocument");
         d.loadXML(str);
         return d;
      } else if (typeof XMLHttpRequest != "undefined") {
         var req = new XMLHttpRequest;
         req.open("GET", "data:" + (contentType || "application/xml") +
                         ";charset=utf-8," + encodeURIComponent(str), false);
         if (req.overrideMimeType) {
            req.overrideMimeType(contentType);
         }
         req.send(null);
         return req.responseXML;	
      }
   }
}

      var poststr = "page=" +business+"&county=" + county;
      makePOSTRequest('/cgi-bin/tracker.cgi', poststr);
   }