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There may be no "public" or named function that does the job. A very common idiom in JavaScript land is to use nested anonymous functions to get work done. What you are looking for may be an anonymous function in a nested chain hooked to an event and essentially impossible to get at from outside.

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by Marcool (Acolyte) on Apr 06, 2016 at 08:56 UTC
    Now that would make a lot of sense... I see lines and lines of nested functions, and can't seem to figure out when the call to the one containing the XMLHttprequest is actually made! I really have some javascript brushing up to do! Thanks for the tip :)