- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:44:43 -0800
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, public-webapi@w3.org
Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > >> Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Jonas Sicking wrote: >>>> Does any currently released browse include the body when doing an >>>> XHR GET request? If a big majority of them currently drop the body, >>>> then it seems like it would help interoperability if the spec >>>> explicitly stated that the body should be dropped. >>> Disagreed. Please do not try to standardize HTTP APIs that profile >>> what HTTP allows. >> >> XHR already disallows a lot of things that HTTP allows. Setting >> certain headers, cross site requests, etc. Why is this different? >> >>> Besides that, Björn already reported that both IE7 and FF happily >>> pass the body, as they should (IMHO). >> >> My reading of Björns email was that they did not drop it for HEAD, >> OPTIONS and EXAMPLE did not drop the entity body. In my testing IE, >> Firefox and Opera all dropped the entity body of GET requests. > > Did you try Safari (or can you post the test case so I can try it?) I did not try safari. You can try it here: http://people.mozilla.com/~sicking/xhr_body.html / Jonas
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