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Re: ISSUE-58: XMLHttpRequest.abort() should just reset the object

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:11:10 -0500
Message-ID: <4432FD0E.1080306@mit.edu>
To: Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org> 

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Please see the remainder of that thread, and in particular see 
> http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xml/tree/browse_frm/thread/74257e17b66e68e8/8e0b8aded9bac4a0?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmozilla.dev.tech.xml%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F74257e17b66e68e8%2F8e0b8aded9bac4a0%3Ftvc%3D1%26#doc_8bfcb7bc6d4f97a4 
> and the bug referenced therein, which describes IE's behavior.  IE does 
> set the readyState to 4 in some cases, but not in others, apparently.

And _this_ behavior depends on the exact version of MSXML installed.  The 
default one that comes with IE6 doesn't behave the same as some others.  See 
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.xml/tree/browse_frm/thread/74257e17b66e68e8/8e0b8aded9bac4a0?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fmozilla.dev.tech.xml%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F74257e17b66e68e8%2F8e0b8aded9bac4a0%3Ftvc%3D1%26#doc_61a718658add8657 
for details...

-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 4 April 2006 23:11:16 GMT

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