//Makes the AJAX Call that marks an item as viewed, then redirects to the appropriate URL

function goToLink(url, updateID)
{
    
    //Build an XMLHTTP object
    var xmlhttp=false;
    /*@cc_on @*/
    /*@if (@_jscript_version >= 5)
    // JScript gives us Conditional compilation, we can cope with old IE versions.
    // and security blocked creation of the objects.
     try {
      xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
     } catch (e) {
      try {
       xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
      } catch (E) {
       xmlhttp = false;
      }
     }
    @end @*/
    if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined') {
	    try {
		    xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
	    } catch (e) {
		    xmlhttp=false;
	    }
    }
    if (!xmlhttp && window.createRequest) {
	    try {
		    xmlhttp = window.createRequest();
	    } catch (e) {
		    xmlhttp=false;
	    }
    }

    
    //Make a get request to mark item as read
     xmlhttp.open("GET", "/App_Info/MarkItemRead.aspx?ID="+updateID,true);
     xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
      if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
      
       //Request complete... redirect the user
       window.location=url;
      }
     }
     xmlhttp.send(null)
    
    
}