Re: responseXML/responseText exceptions and parseError

timeless wrote:
>> generally what i've seen is that exposing some information about a
>> parse error to a script is a great way to enable data leaks to a
>> malicious application.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Could you please provide some more information or give an example about when
>> this would be the case?
> 
> this is the replacement spec which doesn't support this feature (which
> also implies that people might have had a reason):
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/cssom/#the-cssstylesheet
> Statements that were dropped during parsing can not be found using these APIs.
> ...

Can you provide an example where providing *XML* parse error information 
within *XHR* would be problematic?

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2008 10:10:24 UTC