hixie: Allow XHR a way to block cookies. (whatwg r5330)

hixie: Allow XHR a way to block cookies. (whatwg r5330)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.4248&r2=1.4249&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5329&to=5330

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4248
retrieving revision 1.4249
diff -u -d -r1.4248 -r1.4249
--- Overview.html 24 Aug 2010 08:28:35 -0000 1.4248
+++ Overview.html 24 Aug 2010 18:52:45 -0000 1.4249
@@ -5334,9 +5334,9 @@
   <p>When a user agent is to <dfn id="fetch">fetch</dfn> a resource or
   <a href="#url">URL</a>, optionally from an origin <i title="">origin</i>,
   and optionally with a <i>synchronous flag</i>, a <i>manual redirect
-  flag</i>, and/or a <i>force same-origin flag</i>, the following
-  steps must be run. (When a <em>URL</em> is to be fetched, the URL
-  identifies a resource to be obtained.)</p>
+  flag</i>, a <i>force same-origin flag</i>, and/or a <i>block cookies
+  flag</i>, the following steps must be run. (When a <em>URL</em> is
+  to be fetched, the URL identifies a resource to be obtained.)</p>
 
   <!-- if invoked with the synchronous flag, make sure to release the
   storage mutex first -->
@@ -5351,6 +5351,8 @@
   the same as the /origin/, which must also be present, and the
   algorithm must not be invoked with the manual redirect flag. -->
 
+  <!-- "block cookies" is currently only used by XHR -->
+
   <ol><li>
 
     <p>Generate the <i>address of the resource from which Request-URIs
@@ -5426,8 +5428,9 @@
 
    <li>
 
-    <p>If there are cookies to be set, then the user agent must run
-    the following substeps:</p>
+    <p>If the algorithm was not invoked with the <i>block cookies
+    flag</i>, and there are cookies to be set, then the user agent
+    must run the following substeps:</p>
 
     <ol><li><p>Wait until ownership of the <a href="#storage-mutex">storage mutex</a> can
      be taken by this instance of the <a href="#fetch" title="fetch">fetching</a> algorithm.</li>

Received on Tuesday, 24 August 2010 18:53:32 UTC