title: How can I watch (i.e. debug) xmlHttpRequest() actions in IE8 ? (using Firebug Lite)
body: <p>I normally do my web dev using Firefox - I periodically test for cross browser compatability of my pages by using FF and IE.</p>
  
  <p>I have just found that one of my AJAX pages stopped working in IE - although it works fine in FF. With FF, I always use FireBug to debug my Ajax interactions. I am looking for a similar tool to use with IE - to see what it is causing it to fail, even though it is a straightforward AJAX process on the page. </p>
  
  <p>I downloaded Firebug Lite and that was very helpful, as it brought a familiar dev environment into IE. Unfortunately, I have not been able to debug my AJAX interactions following the ForebugLite's documentation:</p>
  
  <pre><code>firebug.watchXHR: Use this function to watch the status of XmlHttpRequest objects.
  
      var req = new XmlHttpRequest;
      firebug.watchXHR(req);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I inserted that in my page - so the top of my page looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type='text/javascript' 
      src='http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js'&gt;
      var req = new XmlHttpRequest;
      firebug.watchXHR(req);      
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I still could not debug the AJAX interactions (i.e. nothing shows in the console window when I click on a link that triggers an AJAX call).</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone managed to do this before (IE7 and Firebug Lite)?</p>