Re: Recent spec change to XMLHttpRequest default Content-Type

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:08:06 +0200, Carsten Orthbandt  
<carsten@pixeltamer.net> wrote:
> If the spec clearly said "if there is no Content-Type specified, the
> UA should try to treat it as XML, but not raise any error conditions
> if parsing fails" there would be no compatibility issues and the
> behaviour of (compliant) XHR implementations would actually match
> the rules set out in the HTTP protocol.
> If it is actually intended to raise XML errors on untyped content
> this would IMHO be a important difference to the HTTP RFC.

The specification once had a concept of what is and what is not conforming  
for scripts to do, but it was to much of a hassle so that has been  
dropped. Whether or not user agents show an error message is up to them  
really.


-- 
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>

Received on Friday, 15 June 2007 10:20:45 UTC