Re: [XHR] anonymous flag

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen
<hallvord@opera.com> wrote:
> If create an anonymous XHR request, rig it to GET a same-origin resource and set a custom header, it will trigger a preflight and the same-origin resource will have to opt in to receiving that custom header? Expected?

Yes. It was added to address: http://www.w3.org/TR/UMP/

However, Gecko currently implements a mozAnon thingie that only omits
credentials and does not do the origin/referrer source nullifying. It
also hasn't gained any traction beyond that with implementers so maybe
it should be removed for now. Dunno.


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Received on Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:16:06 UTC