Re: [xhr2] Redirect during send question

Just to round out the thread :),  I fixed my test for IE and found that IE7
also throws an exception in this case.

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:23 PM, David Levin <levin@chromium.org> wrote:

> I just got a Firefox nightly and found that it does throw in this case, so
> the behavior changed from FF 3.
> Also, I noticed that my test in IE didn't quite work.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:51 AM, David Levin <levin@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> Regarding the http redirect security violation steps, the spec (
>> http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/) says "If async is set to
>> false raise a NETWORK_ERR exception and terminate the overall algorithm."
>> I tried out IE7, Firefox 3, and WebKit nightlies and none of them seem to
>> throw an exception in this case.
>>
>> Won't implementing the spec introduce a significant incompatibility?  Or
>> did I miss something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dave
>>
>> PS I'm asking because I doing a change in WebKit in this area.
>>
>>
>

Received on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 16:26:55 UTC