- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:40:51 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On 15.09.2010 10:44, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 9/15/10 1:37 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> What browsers do today is a bug per spec. > > Well, yes, but they implemented it that way as a specific workaround for > broken servers, no? I'm not sure about that. >> Use cases for XHR are not identical to surfing web pages. There are >> protocols/implementations that expect method names to be preserved for >> 301/302 (*), and an XHR2 with sane redirect handling should at least >> make it possible to talk to these servers. > > OK, I almost buy this argument. I feel that we should require opt-in to > this behavior difference, though, not do it by default. Since this is a new feature (giving the caller control over redirects) I'd argue that the default should be compliant to the spec, and people would have to opt-in to something else. But minimally, the correct behavior needs to be available somehow. Best regards, Julian
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