FYI: XHR HTTP tests updated

In Cannes, a few people expressed interest in the ad hoc HTTP testing  
I've been doing on XmlHttpRequest implementations;
   http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/
   http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/cache.html

Recently, I've been concentrating on the caching tests. Most of them  
are indicative of the browser's cache implementation, rather than  
anything specific to XHR, but I would note that it appears that  
browser caches currently don't pay attention to Cache-Control request  
headers sent by XHR, which is disappointing.

If anyone is interested in helping, or has bug reports* or  
suggestions for more tests, I'm all ears. The back end is a mish-mash  
of Apache .htaccess config and CGI scripts, but I'll open source it  
if there's interest.

Cheers,

* The only outright bug I know of now is a weird interaction with  
Opera in the cache invalidation tests; I'm sure there are others.

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Mark Nottingham     http://www.mnot.net/

Received on Friday, 14 April 2006 17:15:00 UTC