Re: XHR vs setting request headers

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Yes, I noticed that. For instance, it happens for application/..+xml, 
>> where it's really useless. Shouldn't this be restricted to text/*?
> 
> That could perhaps be done.  The initial implementation just does it no 
> matter the MIME type so as to avoid making assumptions about particular 
> types (always a good thing).

This assumes that every non-text/* mime type *can* take a charset 
parameter, which IMHO is not true.

But this probably only becomes relevant once we have non XML/string 
based ways to set the body.

BR, Julian