Re: [XHR] Redirects

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Darin Fisher <darin@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>>>> I think that obtaining the resolved Location for the redirect is the
>>>> most tricky part, and we should come up with a solution where that is
>>>> also available for people who do not want the default browser behavior.
>>>
>>> I don't really like special casing the Location header here. It seems we
>>> are ending up with two additional members for dealing with redirects. I
>>> do not want another one. There are other headers where resolving a URL
>>> might be needed. Adding a parameter to navigator.resolveURL() for a base
>>> URL is the way to go I think.
>>
>> That sounds good to me. In general I think it would be great if there were
>> standard APIs for URI/IRI construction, parsing and resolution...
>
> Yes, that sounds pretty good to me too.

This has annoyed me for a while too.  I'll write up a spec.

Adam

Received on Friday, 17 September 2010 17:28:15 UTC