Re: XHR: restrictions on request headers

"Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
> Jim Ley wrote:
>>
>> "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
>>> Though the usecase for Accept-Charset seems fairly weak. Why couldn't 
>>> the author simply filter responseText?
>>
>> How would an author do that?  Or do you mean the ASCII use case, and not 
>> might accessibility tool use case?
>
> The only use case I've heard so far is the ability to request a pure-ascii 
> response. Or I guess more generally requesting an encoding that only 
> contains a specific subset of the unicode map. However I'm not sure what 
> value this gives over simply looping over responseText and testing if all 
> chars are in the desired subset.

As part of the W3's EARL work, it's likely I'll be resurrecting some tools 
of mine which consume EARL reports about a site and present information to 
the user about the problems, these tools either run in the browser as a 
script extension, or by being installed on the site that's tested.  To be 
able to show the error, I need to be able to repeat the request that was 
tested, this means sending the same headers - so I need to be able to 
achieve that.  Of course if the encoding is not supported then I cannot do 
anything and expect it to fail, but in the majority situation lots of 
encodings are supported so changing preferences will work.

Cheers,

Jim.

Received on Wednesday, 12 April 2006 23:25:14 UTC