Not an "error" but simply that the request failed to return a valid matching record. The code is returned as it shows if I enter a bad value in the search form, only that it comes back in raw text form through the xmlhttp object. It seems to indicate that the empno value is not submitted like a true form('empno') entry, and is therefore causing the ASP page to fail on the query.
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