Re: XMLHttpRequest for Last Call

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:59:12 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> I think the spec needs to be carefully checked for usage of  
> RFC2119/BCP14 terminology. For instance  
> (<http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#dfn-setrequestheader>):
>
> "For security reasons nothing SHOULD be done if the header argument  
> matches one of the following headers case-insensitively:"
>
> I think I understand what the intent is, but maybe it should be  
> rephrased to:
>
> "For security reasons, a server SHOULD ignore any attempt to modify any  
> of the headers below (header names being matched case-insensitively):"

I don't understand this suggestion. Are you sure you understand what the  
section is about?


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Received on Tuesday, 13 February 2007 16:02:33 UTC