Re: XHR: restrictions on request headers

• From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
• Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:53:52 -0700
• To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
• Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Web APIs WG <public-webapi@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <443C4190.1080100@sicking.cc>

Julian Reschke wrote:
> IE's XmlHttpRequest object already supports binary streams, both for 
> request bodies and for response bodies. If a UA allows that, restricting 
> headers so that responses are always text or XML doesn't make sense 
> anymore.

I don't think this is something that we will support in version 1 since 
it does not work in any other UA.

/ Jonas

Received on Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:54:15 UTC