RE: XMLHttpRequest send() Method Uploads On Inappropriate HTTP Protocols

Hi Anne,

> > I believe this spec ought to be updated to also exclude POST data from  
> > being uploaded for HTTP request methods like DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS.
>
> As I said in the bug, we do not want to constrain HTTP more than we
> already do.

I believe this is not a question of wanting but a question of definition and browser compatibility.



> > Plus, I believe upload should be allowed to be send along with HEAD  
> > requests, because if the page would usually respond to POST requests, it  
> > can only return useful results like Content-length if the HEAD request  
> > would upload the same data as POST.
>
> I do not understand what you mean here. GET/HEAD are semantically
> equivalent, not HEAD/POST.

Yes, sure. But a HEAD request is usually being used to obtain a web server's headers on a specific resource. If that resource is configured to respond to POST requests only (e.g. a PHP page responding to uploaded form data), the headers returned by this resource ought to be the same headers a HEAD request would obtain.

So if a web server's resource would respond to a HTTP POST request with headers containing, e.g., Content-length information (or any header computed from the uploaded POST data) then a HEAD request should yield the same headers. Otherwise the HEAD information retrieved would be useless in order to take decisions on whether to load the full resource using a POST request.

Do you see my point?



Best regards,
Axel Dahmen
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