I am looking for some way to elegantly inspect XmlHttpRequests in IE8. I wouldn't mind a plugin or an external program. I have yet to find anything that works nearly as well as Firebug.
I have already tried Julien Couvreur's bookmark debugger, but it did not seem to work with Prototype. Julien's Script
Fiddler is the main tool for Request Response Debuggin in IE... ( FireBug in FireFox )
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
Why don't you retrieve the output, and write to the console directly? For example, if using a jQuery $.post:
$.post("posturl", data, function(output){
console.log(output);
}
I found this worked somewhat for me while working with IE. But I like firebug best for this; the output is easy to inspect.