- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:31:24 +0100
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- CC: WHAT Working Group <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > ... > Further, Benno suggests extending http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ > with a property to disable following redirects automatically so as to > be able to expose the redirection. > > I am not aware if somebody else has suggested these use cases for CORS > and XMLHttpRequest before (this may not even be the right fora for > it), but since these are so closely linked to what we do in HTML5, I > thought it would be good to point it out. I would think that at > minimum Anne knows what to do with it, since he is editor on both. > ... Extending XMLHttpRequest for better control over redirects certainly would be a good thing. Note that there's work-in-progress of adding "proper" HTTP support to the Netscape plugin API (see <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:GenericHttpMethod>), where we have the same feature request, and it would be good to align this with XmlHttpRequest semantics. Best regards, Julian
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