Re: Re: [XHR] anonymous flag

> > BTW - have you considered allowing setting withCredentials to "false" for same-origin resources?
> 

> I suspect that would break sites.


Possibly, but I find it unlikely - if it's set, it's most likely usually set to "true", not "false", and it's also most likely rarely set for same-origin requests. Wonder how hard it would be to ship a test in some beta- or preview build of some browser..? 8-)


> Making a boolean a tri-state with a
> default depending on an external variable is also super confusing.


To whom? "Defaults to true for same-origin, false for cross-origin, can be set to override" seems to give authors a behaviour that's relatively intuitive. (Authors would not really have to consider the odd tri-state underpinnings, it still looks like a boolean except with a variable default behaviour).


It might be weird and confusing to implement though.. 
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Hallvord R. M. Steen
Core tester, Opera Software

Received on Saturday, 18 May 2013 20:43:05 UTC