Re: Recent spec change to XMLHttpRequest default Content-Type

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Carsten Orthbandt wrote:
>> Bjoern Hoehrmann schrieb:
>>> Why don't you use less &, <, and ]]> sequences in the content and wrap
>>> it into <x>...</x>?
>> If my response body is (literal example)
>>
>> ---snip---
>> ut:7325
>> ubc:0
>> ---snap---
>>
>> there's obviously some hesitation to wrap that as
>>
>> ---snip---
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <x>
>> ut:7325
>> ubc:0
>> </x>
>> ---snap---
> 
> It would be sufficient to use <x>ut:7325,ubc:0</x>. The massive amount
> of overhead generated by the connection setup and request and response
> headers hardly compare to those 7 bytes.

Or even

   <x ut="7325" ubc="0"/>

, removing the need for a custom parser.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 15 June 2007 09:08:20 UTC