- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:50:19 -0700
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:08:47 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Is this intentional? >>>> >>>> This does match what Gecko does, but we are willing to change this if >>>> others agree that it's a better behavior. >>> >>> >>> Yes, the idea is that you can transmit both the empty entity body and no >>> entity body. The former will also have a Content-Length header set. Whether >>> it is useful to have both... >> >> I'd find it very surprising if send(getSomeString()) resulted in a different >> Content-Type depending on the length of the string. A zero-length string is >> still a string. > > Is it more surprising than that .send() and .send(hasSomethingToSend() > ? getTheThingToSend() : "") sets a Content-Type even when no body is > submitted? Err.. sorry, that should say: Is it more surprising than that xhr.send(hasSomethingToSend() ? getTheThingToSend() : ""); sets the Content-Type header even when no body is submitted? / Jonas
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