RE: XHR HTTP method support, Re: XHR LC comments

Hey Julian!
Thanks for your mail. I'm adding my x-teammates from IE who should be able to help you here. FYI I've transitioned over to our Online Services Group here at MS!
All the best!

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.reschke@gmx.de]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:50 AM
To: Sunava Dutta; public-webapps@w3.org
Cc: Anne van Kesteren; Web API WG (public)
Subject: XHR HTTP method support, Re: XHR LC comments

Following up to a mail from May 2008:

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Sunava Dutta wrote:
>> ...
>>> At this point, I'm not sure why we're bothering with XHR1 at all. It is
>>> *not* what the current implementations do anyway.
>> [Sunava Dutta] I'm sorry, this statement is concerning and I'd like to
>> understand it better. We haven’t had a chance to run the latest test
>> suite yet but expect the test suite to be compliant with at least two
>> existing implementations. Do you mean the XHR 1 draft is not
>> interoperable with existing implementations?
>> ...
>
> Absolutely. Everytime I check something that is of interest to me it
> turns out that there is no interop, and that only some or even none of
> the browsers works as specified.
>
> Examples:
>
> - Support for HTTP extension methods: IE violates the SHOULD level
> requirement to support extenstion methods. Opera silently (!!!) changes
> extension method names to "POST".
> ...

Just rechecked...

IE8beta: no improvement -- only the methods in RFC2518 are are
supported, the remaining methods
(<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01.html>),
not to mention future methods, are unsupported.

Opera 10: only a small improvement; unknown method names are now changed
to "GET" (still silently!!!).

Best regards, Julian

Received on Tuesday, 10 February 2009 00:14:39 UTC