[jQuery] AJAX API without XML?

[jQuery] AJAX API without XML?


Hi,
I understand that normally when you want to load a page into an area
of the page, you would use the ajax.load function within jQuery's AJAX
API. However what happens if you have an old-fashioned server which
does not support XML over HTTP? In other words it expects to receive
name=value parameters from the client and then returns an HTTPResponse
with just standard HTML in the body and some other headers? Can we
still use the AJAX API? If not, is there some plugin which allows me
to modify the standard AJAX functions to use standard HTTP Request/
Response format (or "AJAH")?