Re: [XHR] XMLHttpRequest.send("")

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> Is it more surprising than that
>
> xhr.send(hasSomethingToSend() ? getTheThingToSend() : "");
>
> sets the Content-Type header even when no body is submitted?
>

That's exactly what I would expect.  A body that happens to have a zero
length is still valid text/plain data.

If you want to omit Content-Type in the above case, then you should write:

xhr.send(hasSomethingToSend() ? getTheThingToSend() : null);

-- 
Glenn Maynard