- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:42:47 -0800
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "Web API WG (public)" <public-webapi@w3.org>
On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:06:02 +0100, Maciej Stachowiak > <mjs@apple.com> wrote: >> On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> Currently getResponseHeader() returns the empty string for invalid >>> header names. Would people object if I changed that to returning >>> null instead (basically making it equivalent to headers not part >>> of the response)? Thanks. >> >> What do current implementations do for these cases? > > I think three out of four return null for a non-existent header (IE > being the exception, iirc). Firefox and an internal version of Opera > also return null for invalid headers. (Although for Firefox it seems > to differ on based on whether the request has happened already or > something...) In that case I think it makes sense to use null for both missing and invalid headers. - Maciej
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