Automatic Web-page Refresh Memory Leak Using Xmlhttprequest

Greetings, I've been working on a web-interface for some hardware that uses an 8-bit microcontroller. The web page uses HTML, javascript, JSON and XHR (XMLHttpRequest) for its com

Solution 1:

There is a Google Code project that has created a cross-browser implementation of XMLHttpRequest. They also maintain a small list of native XMLHttpRequest bugs that might be useful to you.

The following bug seems potentially applicable to your situation:

Bug: The instance of XMLHttpRequest doesn't get garbage collected in case you have a reference to the instance or to an other [sic] COM object (for example: DOM Node etc.) in its onreadystatechange handler, thus producing runtime memory leaks.