Can't connect to local Oracle 11g express

Hello.
I have an Oracle 11g Express installation on my personal Windows 7 PC.
Its DB name is the default - XE. I can connect to it in sqlplus just fine.
I have a .htm file on the same machine which contains a Javascript function, which I am executing in IE version 11.
(You may wonder why I am using this stack of outdated technology, but I have my reasons).

I have successfully set up an ODBC connection based on "Oracle in XE" Driver - this tests ok.

My Javascript commands are like this:

var conn=new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Connection"); conn.ConnectionTimeout=10; conn.CommandTimeout=0;

var cs="Driver=(Oracle in XEClient);dbq=localhost:1521/XE;Database=XE;Uid=myuser;Pwd=mypassword;" ;

try{ conn.open(cs); }catch(err){ alert("Could not connect: "+err.description); return false; };

• this fails with error "[Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager]Data source name not found and no default driver specified"

I have tried various other connection strings, with no success, but it seems like the one above SHOULD work - any advice would be greatly appreciated!

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