- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:22:12 +0200
- To: "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: "Web APIs WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:09:32 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote: > One argument is that it's simply impossible to work around an XHR > implementation that changes the casing in a way that the server doesn't > expect. For example if the server wants a 'doit' method and the XHR > implementation case folds to uppercase, the script author will simply > not be able to use that method. > > So in this case I think both mozilla and opera does the wrong thing. And IE7 does the wrong thing too in having 'head' mean 'head', 'HEAD' > '', 'get' -> 'GET', 'post' > 'POST', 'put' > error, 'foo' > error... As in, it doesn't support arbitrary method names anymore and does do some uppercasing for the methods everyone is using, mostly. (And not for 'put' apparently.) See http://svg.jibbering.com/webapi/2006-04-20.html#T13-55-43 for all the funny conversations surrounding the above. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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