- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:53:30 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: public-webapps@w3.org
On 3/28/12 1:33 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:23:15 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: >> But the HTTP status text is a sequence of bytes, while the return >> value for statusText is a DOMString. The conversion from one to the >> other needs to be defined. > > Would using > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#inflate-a-byte-sequence-into-a-domstring > be sufficient I don't know. I believe Gecko's behavior is to treat the status as UTF-8 and stop the conversion at the first invalid byte or something like that (and we have tests in the test suite that test for this; that's why I ran into this issue at all). It's worth testing what other browsers do. :( -Boris
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