Ajax.Base = function() {};
Ajax.Base.prototype = {
  setOptions: function(options) {
    this.options = {
      method:       'post',
      asynchronous: true,
      contentType:  'application/soap+xml',
      encoding:     'UTF-8',
      parameters:   ''
    }
    Object.extend(this.options, options || {});

    this.options.method = this.options.method.toLowerCase();
    this.options.parameters = $H(typeof this.options.parameters == 'string' ?
      this.options.parameters.toQueryParams() : this.options.parameters);
  }
}

Ajax.Request.prototype = Object.extend(new Ajax.Base(), {
  initialize: function(url, options) {
    this.transport = Ajax.getTransport();
    this.setOptions(options);
    this.request(url);
  },

  request: function(url) {
    var params = this.options.parameters;
    if (params.any()) params['_'] = '';

    if (!['get', 'post'].include(this.options.method)) {
      // simulate other verbs over post
      params['_method'] = this.options.method;
      this.options.method = 'post';
    }

    this.url = url;

    // when GET, append parameters to URL
    if (this.options.method == 'get' && params.any())
      this.url += (this.url.indexOf('?') >= 0 ? '&' : '?') +
        params.toQueryString();

    try {
      Ajax.Responders.dispatch('onCreate', this, this.transport);

      this.transport.open(this.options.method.toUpperCase(), this.url,
        this.options.asynchronous, this.options.username,
        this.options.password);

      if (this.options.asynchronous)
        setTimeout(function() { this.respondToReadyState(1) }.bind(this), 10);

      this.transport.onreadystatechange = this.onStateChange.bind(this);
      this.setRequestHeaders();

      var body = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' + 
        '<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">' +
          '<soap12:Body>' +
            '<' + this.options.webFunc + ' xmlns="' + 
            (this.options.webNamespace ? this.options.webNamespace : 'http://tempuri.org/') + '" >';
      
      for (var postParam in this.options.postParams)
        body += "<" + postParam + '>' + this.options.postParams[postParam] + '</' + postParam + '>'
      
      body += '</' + this.options.webFunc + ' >';
       
      body += '</soap12:Body>' + '</soap12:Envelope>';

      this.transport.setRequestHeader('Content-Length', body.length);

      this.transport.send(body);

      /* Force Firefox to handle ready state 4 for synchronous requests */
      if (!this.options.asynchronous && this.transport.overrideMimeType)
      {
        debugger;
        this.onStateChange();
      }
    }
    catch (e) {
      debugger;
      this.dispatchException(e);
    }
  },

  onStateChange: function() {
    var readyState = this.transport.readyState;
    if (readyState > 1)
      this.respondToReadyState(this.transport.readyState);
  },

  setRequestHeaders: function() {
    var headers = {
      'X-Requested-With': 'XMLHttpRequest',
      'X-Prototype-Version': Prototype.Version,
      'Accept': 'text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*'
    };

    if (this.options.method == 'post') {
      headers['Content-type'] = this.options.contentType +
        (this.options.encoding ? '; charset=' + this.options.encoding : '');

      /* Force "Connection: close" for older Mozilla browsers to work
       * around a bug where XMLHttpRequest sends an incorrect
       * Content-length header. See Mozilla Bugzilla #246651.
       */
      if (this.transport.overrideMimeType &&
          (navigator.userAgent.match(/Gecko\/(\d{4})/) || [0,2005])[1] < 2005)
            headers['Connection'] = 'close';
    }

    // user-defined headers
    if (typeof this.options.requestHeaders == 'object') {
      var extras = this.options.requestHeaders;

      if (typeof extras.push == 'function')
        for (var i = 0; i < extras.length; i += 2)
          headers[extras[i]] = extras[i+1];
      else
        $H(extras).each(function(pair) { headers[pair.key] = pair.value });
    }

    for (var name in headers)
      this.transport.setRequestHeader(name, headers[name]);
  },

  success: function() {
    return !this.transport.status
        || (this.transport.status >= 200 && this.transport.status < 300);
  },

  respondToReadyState: function(readyState) {
    var state = Ajax.Request.Events[readyState];
    var transport = this.transport, json = this.evalJSON();

    if (state == 'Complete') {
      try {
        (this.options['on' + this.transport.status]
         || this.options['on' + (this.success() ? 'Success' : 'Failure')]
         || Prototype.emptyFunction)(transport, json);
      } catch (e) {
        this.dispatchException(e);
      }
    }

    try {
      (this.options['on' + state] || Prototype.emptyFunction)(transport, json);
      Ajax.Responders.dispatch('on' + state, this, transport, json);
    } catch (e) {
      this.dispatchException(e);
    }

    if (state == 'Complete') {
      if ((this.getHeader('Content-type') || '').strip().
        match(/^(text|application)\/(x-)?(java|ecma)script(;.*)?$/i))
          this.evalResponse();

      // avoid memory leak in MSIE: clean up
      this.transport.onreadystatechange = Prototype.emptyFunction;
    }
  },

  getHeader: function(name) {
    try {
      return this.transport.getResponseHeader(name);
    } catch (e) { return null }
  },

  evalJSON: function() {
    try {
      var json = this.getHeader('X-JSON');
      return json ? eval('(' + json + ')') : null;
    } catch (e) { return null }
  },

  evalResponse: function() {
    try {
      return eval(this.transport.responseText);
    } catch (e) {
      this.dispatchException(e);
    }
  },

  dispatchException: function(exception) {
    (this.options.onException || Prototype.emptyFunction)(this, exception);
    Ajax.Responders.dispatch('onException', this, exception);
  }
});