[Bug 16292] New: conflation of DOMString and deflated DOMString

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16292

           Summary: conflation of DOMString and deflated DOMString
           Product: WebAppsWG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
               URL: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/8d4e9ccfdbd4/Overvi
                    ew.html
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: XHR
        AssignedTo: annevk@opera.com
        ReportedBy: glenn@skynav.com
         QAContact: public-webapps-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-webapps@w3.org


In section 4.7.1., step 2 states "let method be the result of deflating
method". This statement is not well defined since method is a DOMString (a
16-bit coding unit sequence) and the results of deflating method is an 8-bit
(byte) sequence.

Furthermore, step 3 states "if method is a case-insensitive match for CONNECT,
DELETE, GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, POST, PUT, TRACE, or TRACK subtract 0x20 from each
byte...". Here, "method" is obviously being interpreted as a byte sequence (a
deflated DOMString) but in contravention of its declared type (DOMString).
Moreover, the rule talks about a "case-insensitive match for CONNECT, ...", but
these strings "CONNECT", etc., are presumably interpreted as DOMStrings, since
that is the only string type being used.

The same problem occurs under 4.7.2 steps 2, 3, and 4.

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Received on Friday, 9 March 2012 21:59:37 UTC