function xmlhttpPost(action, refservice, emailadd) {

    var xmlHttpReq = false;
    var strURL = "./validate.pl";
    var self = this;
//    document.getElementById("resulttwo").innerHTML = '';

    // Mozilla/Safari
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        self.xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
    // IE
    else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    self.xmlHttpReq.open('POST', strURL, true);
    self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 1) {
//               document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = "<Table class=boxed><tr><td align=center >Loading<BR> <IMG SRC='./images/LoadingProgressBar.gif'></td></tr></table>";
        }

        if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
            updatepage(self.xmlHttpReq.responseText);
 	    // resetElement();
	
		resultsuser=self.xmlHttpReq.responseText;
		scriptTag='(<script.*?>)((\n|\r|.)*?)(<\/script>)';
		if (scripts=resultsuser.match(scriptTag)) {
			// remove slashes
		 	scripts[2]=scripts[2].replace(/\\/g,"");
		 	//run scripts
		 	eval(scripts[2]);
		}
 



        }
    }
	// var emailadd = this.name;
    self.xmlHttpReq.send(getquerystring(action, refservice, emailadd));
}

function getquerystring(action, refservice, emailadd ) {


    qstr = 'emailadd=' + emailadd + '&action=' + action ; 
//    qstr = 'action=accountinfo&' + 'w=' + escape(word);  // NOTE: no '?' before querystring
    return qstr;
}

function updatepage(str){
    // document.getElementById("resulttwo").innerHTML = '';
    document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = str;
//    document.getElementById("resulttwo").innerHTML = 'This is another Test'; 

}