GetElementsByTagName Is Not A Function?

Jun 30, 2006

Here's the deal, If I access the page directly on my pc via the file system (i.e. I open up the file via: file::/path../main.html, the page and script runs just fine.

If however I point the browser to tomcat i.e. localhost:8080/blah
firefox spits out the error: getElementsByTagName is not a function.

Any thoughts or pointers? I'm totally confused over this..this is a built in function call?

note: I did an instanceof on the object making the call, and it does indeed confirm it is an object.

ps. I have confirmed I can access the all scripts/css files from the webserver (tomcat)

System:
FireFox (1.5.04), Tomcat, IE6 (also fails, even though I haven't found out how to see the js error details?)

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