- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:36:45 -0800
- To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, public-webapi@w3.org
On Dec 14, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Jonas Sicking wrote: >>> Does any currently released browse include the body when doing an >>> XHR GET request? If a big majority of them currently drop the >>> body, then it seems like it would help interoperability if the >>> spec explicitly stated that the body should be dropped. >> Disagreed. Please do not try to standardize HTTP APIs that profile >> what HTTP allows. > > XHR already disallows a lot of things that HTTP allows. Setting > certain headers, cross site requests, etc. Why is this different? > >> Besides that, Björn already reported that both IE7 and FF happily >> pass the body, as they should (IMHO). > > My reading of Björns email was that they did not drop it for HEAD, > OPTIONS and EXAMPLE did not drop the entity body. In my testing IE, > Firefox and Opera all dropped the entity body of GET requests. Did you try Safari (or can you post the test case so I can try it?) Regards, Maciej
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