Re: XHR vs setting request headers

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> 
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> For what it's worth, Mozilla does have such a way (only available to 
> privileged code).  When the body is set from a byte stream directly, we 
> don't touch the charset arg.

Ah, so all is well. Thanks.

Do you happen to have sample code for using byte stream? I looked for 
that some time ago when trying to implement a WebDAV extension, but 
couldn't figure it out...

BR, Julian