//var lastupdate = 0;
function distroquery_request(request) {
  var url = "/cgi-bin/distroquery";
  var statusupdated = false;
  var xmlhttp;

  document.getElementById("querystatus").innerHTML = "Ricerca in corso...";

  if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
    xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
  else if (window.ActiveXObject)
    xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  else
    return;
  document.getElementById("noajax_msg").innerHTML = "";
  xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xmlhttp.readyState != 4) {
      return;
    }
    var xmldoc = xmlhttp.responseXML.documentElement;
    var xmlelement = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("*");
    for (var i=0, max=xmlelement.length; i < max; i++) {
       if (xmlelement[i].nodeName == "title")
          document.title = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
       else if (document.getElementById(xmlelement[i].nodeName).innerHTML != null) {
          document.getElementById(xmlelement[i].nodeName).innerHTML = xmlelement[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
          if (xmlelement[i].nodeName == "querystatus") statusupdated = true;
       }
    }
    //lastupdate = (+new Date());
    if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200 && !statusupdated)
       document.getElementById("querystatus").innerHTML = "";
  }
  if (request)
     xmlhttp.open("GET", url + "?lang=it_IT.UTF-8&" + request, true);
  else
     xmlhttp.open("GET", url + "?lang=it_IT.UTF-8", true);
  xmlhttp.send();

//  xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
//  xmlhttp.send(request);
}