- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:24:32 +0200
- To: "Carsten Orthbandt" <carsten@pixeltamer.net>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:58:30 +0200, Carsten Orthbandt <carsten@pixeltamer.net> wrote: > Executive summary: > > The current specs clearly say that XMLHttpRequest responses without a > Content-Type header are to be treated as text/plain, not XML. There's > a change underway that says that such content should be treated as XML. > I think this is not a good idea. We have to deal with reality. This change was made to the specification because UA implementors already populate responseXML with a parsed document if the response does not include a Content-Type header and said they could not remove that. If you can convince UA implementors to not populate responseXML for responses without a Content-Type header please report back and I'll update the specification. > [...] -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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