function showMiniCart() { 
    var minicartcontainer = document.getElementById('mini-cart-container'); 
      
    var xmlHttp = ajaxFunction();
    var params = '';

    xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {

        if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {

            if (document.all) {
                var result=xmlHttp.responseText;
                 result=result.replace(/<[//]{0,1}(form|Form)[^><]*>/g, ""); 
                 minicartcontainer.innerHTML = result;                     
            }
            else
            {
                minicartcontainer.innerHTML = xmlHttp.responseText;    
            } 
                         
            down = false;
        }
    }
  
    xmlHttp.open("POST", "/minicart.aspx", true);
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length);
    xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
    xmlHttp.send(params);

    return;
}