RE: [xmlhttprequest2] timeout and JSON

Ah, so it sounds like timing out behaves very similarly to abort()
> being
> called? Does onreadystatechange fire since readystate changes to 0? And
> does this happen before or after ontimeout is fired?
>
> I guess IE doesn't have an abort event on the XHR object (is this
> correct?) so the relation between ontimeout and onabort is undefined as
> far as the IE implementation goes.

Onreadystate change is updated to 0 but does not fire for 0.
We don’t have an abort event on XHR object (of course, abort exists) so onabort currently is undefined.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonas Sicking [mailto:jonas@sicking.cc]
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 8:32 PM
> To: Sunava Dutta
> Cc: Anne van Kesteren; WebApps WG; Gideon Cohn; Zhenbin Xu; IE8 Core
> AJAX SWAT Team
> Subject: Re: [xmlhttprequest2] timeout and JSON
>
> Sunava Dutta wrote:
> > " I absolutely agree that it would rock if we could use
> >> the MS implementation."
> >
> > Thanks Jonas. As always, appreciated.
> >
> > Answers to your question
> >>> What happens if there is a timeout in that state?
> >>>
> >>> 1) .readystate is set to 0
> >>>    .status is set to 0
> >>>    .responseXML is set to null
> >>>    .responseText is set to ""
> >>> 2) All properties are left as is.
> >>> 3) Something else  (Profit?)
> >
> > Essentially, timeout has the effect that is similar to 1). Infact,
> design wise is intended to have the same effect although a few
> superficial differences exist.
> > What 1) seems to ask for is resetting the object, which is what IE8
> does. Readystate is set to 0, there are a few differences in IE's (8
> and legacy) support for the existing XHR syntax, and those are
> reflected in the values of the properties when they are accessed in
> readystate 0 and corresponding exceptions thrown. Any changes to a
> future release of IE to bring those inline with the XHR spec would
> remedy the differences.
> > These are:
> > When ontimeout fires:
> >
> > •       Getting responseText throws an exception:  “The data
> necessary to complete this operation is not yet available”
> > •       Getting responseXML throws an exception:  “Unspecified
> error.”
> > •       Getting status throws an exception:  “Unspecified error.”
>
> Ah, so it sounds like timing out behaves very similarly to abort()
> being
> called? Does onreadystatechange fire since readystate changes to 0? And
> does this happen before or after ontimeout is fired?
>
> I guess IE doesn't have an abort event on the XHR object (is this
> correct?) so the relation between ontimeout and onabort is undefined as
> far as the IE implementation goes.
>
> / Jonas

Received on Friday, 12 September 2008 21:14:21 UTC