XHR2 proposal: support for informational responses

Hi,

it might be cool (and not too complicated) to (optionally) expose 1xx 
responses to the caller (see 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2616.html#status.1xx>).

This could be done through an opt-in, such as specifying a callback 
function to be called asynchronously when the messages come in 
(returning status line and headers).

I know, I know: few use cases. But that's of course because HTTP stacks 
currently do not provide support for it.

See <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-decroy-http-progress-04> for an 
older proposal, which, as far as I recall, got experimental support in 
Chromium.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 10 September 2010 15:08:12 UTC