Re: [XHR] Handle All Status Codes

Martin Kail wrote:
> 
> I'm sure 1000 people have said this before me, but here it is again to 
> show we really want this feature.
> 
> I think the XMLHttpRequest object should handle all status codes during 
> a GET, POST or PUT requests.  More specifically, redirects codes (30x) 
> should be set and the "onreadystatechange" event should be fired.  I 
> don't see any problem with transparent redirects, not everyone cares if 
> a request gets redirected.  However, if someone checks the status code 
> during the onreadystatechange event and it returns a 30x value they 
> should be able to abort the request.

RFC2616 forbids automatically following redirects on unsafe methods.

Best regards, Julian