Re: XHR request state vs provisional responses

Robin Berjon wrote:
> ...
>> I don't think exposing HTTP 1xx status codes has been discussed before.
> 
> Actually I recall them being discussed (I think it was at the Rabat f2f) 
> and there being quick consensus that exposing them wasn't useful.
> ...

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If clients aren't able to see them, 
there's little incentive to define useful 1xx headers (such as, as 
recently discussed, for progress reports on long-running requests).

BR, Julian

Received on Thursday, 24 September 2009 10:57:00 UTC