Re: XHR2 proposal: support for informational responses

Julian Reschke wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a good idea, + is this not needed to allow servers to tell 
clients to Upgrade to HTTP+TLS or WebSockets?

Best,

Nathan

Received on Friday, 10 September 2010 15:22:17 UTC