SSE; hixie: Fix some issues with the recent CORSification of EventSource. (whatwg r6257)

SSE; hixie: Fix some issues with the recent CORSification of
EventSource. (whatwg r6257)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/eventsource/Overview.html?r1=1.179&r2=1.180&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6256&to=6257

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/eventsource/Overview.html,v
retrieving revision 1.179
retrieving revision 1.180
diff -u -d -r1.179 -r1.180
--- Overview.html 17 Jun 2011 19:58:06 -0000 1.179
+++ Overview.html 20 Jun 2011 19:59:36 -0000 1.180
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
 
    <h1>Server-Sent Events</h1>
    
-   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-17-june-2011">Editor's Draft 17 June 2011</h2>
+   <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="editor-s-draft-20-june-2011">Editor's Draft 20 June 2011</h2>
    <dl><dt>Latest Published Version:</dt>
     <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/">http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/</a></dd>
     <dt>Latest Editor's Draft:</dt>
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
   </dl><p>The W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications
   Working Group</a> is the W3C working group responsible for this
   specification's progress along the W3C Recommendation track.
-  This specification is the 17 June 2011 Editor's Draft.
+  This specification is the 20 June 2011 Editor's Draft.
   </p><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5
   February 2004 W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42538/status" rel="disclosure">public list of
   any patent disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables
@@ -449,12 +449,6 @@
    <li><p>Return a new <code><a href="#eventsource">EventSource</a></code> object, and continue
    these steps in the background (without blocking scripts).</li>
 
-   <li><p>If the <span>origin</span> of the resulting <span>absolute
-   URL</span> is not the <span>same origin</span> as that of the
-   <span>entry script</span>, then act as if the resource could not be
-   obtained due to a network error: <a href="#fail-the-connection">fail the connection</a>
-   and abort these steps.</li>
-
    <li>
 
     <p>Do a <span>potentially CORS-enabled fetch</span> of the
@@ -528,8 +522,11 @@
   source's <a href="#concept-event-stream-last-event-id" title="concept-event-stream-last-event-id">last event
   ID string</a>, encoded as UTF-8.<p>User agents should use the <code>Cache-Control: no-cache</code>
   header in requests to bypass any caches for requests of event
-  sources. User agents should ignore HTTP cache headers in the
-  response, never caching event sources.<hr><p>As data is received, the <span title="concept-task">tasks</span>
+  sources. (This header is not a <span title="custom request
+  headers">custom request header</span>, so the user agent will still
+  use the CORS <span>simple cross-origin request</span> mechanism.)
+  User agents should ignore HTTP cache headers in the response, never
+  caching event sources.<hr><p>As data is received, the <span title="concept-task">tasks</span>
   queued by the <span>networking task source</span> to handle the data
   must act as follows.<p>HTTP 200 OK responses with a <span>Content-Type</span> header
   specifying the type <code><a href="#text-event-stream">text/event-stream</a></code>, either with no

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