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// https://developer.mozilla.org/en/using_xmlhttprequest

// http://web.archive.org/web/20071103070418/http://mgran.blogspot.com/2006/08/downloading-binary-streams-with.html
function getBinary(file){
	var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();  
	xhr.open("GET", file, false);  
	xhr.overrideMimeType("text/plain; charset=x-user-defined");  
	xhr.send(null);
	return xhr.responseText;
}