Re: cookies and XMLHttpRequest

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, David Flanagan wrote:
> 
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
> > I'm not sure that we actually need to specify this. A UA supporting cookies
> > should use them in any and all http transfers. If we go and specify how
> > every possible web feature interact with XHR we're never going to get done.
> 
> So then you just need to add something to the spec that makes it 
> perfectly clear that XMLHttpRequest scripts the HTTP subsystem of the 
> UA, and does not create its own network connections and implement 
> rudimentary HTTP itself...

Whether it uses the UA's HTTP library or a separate one, that doesn't 
change what HTTP and other RFCs require for the implementation to be 
considered conformant.

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Received on Wednesday, 26 April 2006 04:11:24 UTC