- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:28:41 +0200
- To: "Darin Fisher" <darin@chromium.org>, "James Leigh" <james-nospam@leighnet.ca>
- Cc: "WebApps WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:22:30 +0200, James Leigh <james-nospam@leighnet.ca> wrote: > A challenge with having these methods combined is that it prevents the > caller from changing (or preserving) the request header between > redirects (Mozilla, for example, resets all its headers following a > redirect). By keeping them separate the caller can reinstate > non-standard (or standard) headers between redirects as necessary. Well, that is a bug that needs to be fixed. We do not introduce new features to work around bugs. It is covered by the XMLHttpRequest test suite: http://tc.labs.opera.com/apis/XMLHttpRequest/send-redirect.htm -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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