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
Why don't you retrieve the output, and write to the console directly? For example, if using a jQuery $.post:
I found this worked somewhat for me while working with IE. But I like firebug best for this; the output is easy to inspect.
Fiddler is the main tool for Request Response Debuggin in IE... ( FireBug in FireFox )
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/