Re: setRequestHeader underspecified - setting "Accept" header as an example

Hallvord R. M. Steen schreef:
>> If the header argument is in the list of request headers either use 
>> multiple headers, combine the values or use a combination of those 
>> (section 4.2, RFC 2616).
>
> I think this needs to be way more specific. We probably need to verify 
> what existing UAs do for actual header values, and make some sensible 
> rules from that.

Just as a pointer, a while ago I blogged about some test results wrt. 
setRequestHeader and the Accept header
(the original comment I posted about has iirc been resolved, by the way):

http://www.grauw.nl/blog/entry/470

This lead to the following discussion on the list:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008May/0228.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008May/0355.html

Maybe that’s useful.

~Laurens

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