- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 04:34:51 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > If I follow correctly, relative URIs passed to open() should be resolved > relative to caller (whatever that means; more on that in a separate > mail). That's not actually precisely what Gecko does right now; probably > a bug in Gecko. > > In particular, if you have documents A and B at two different URIs that > can talk to each other: > > 1) Document A creates an XMLHttpRequest object > 2) Document A sets an onreadystatechange listener on it. > 3) Document B calls open() > > the base URI will be document A as far as I can tell from the code. > Worth adding a test to the test suite for this and similar things where > two different windows both work with the same XMLHttpRequest object. > > Note that each step here needs to be done off a timer or something to > avoid the ambiguity as to what "caller" means that I alluded to earlier. See also http://www.w3.org/mid/441E69F1.2030709@sicking.cc / Jonas
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