Re: [XHR] Content-Length header for data: URLs

XHRs for `mailto:`? :)

Kidding, though that would be kind of interesting.
On Sep 19, 2013 6:28 PM, "Jonas Sicking" <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> That's true for <img src="data:..."> too. Technically that's also not
> needed. Same with <img src="blob:...">
>
> I think there's a lot of value in ensuring that all URL schemes work
> in all APIs that handle URLs. Otherwise the concept of a URL sort of
> falls apart.
>
> / Jonas
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:46 PM, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Are you saying it's possible to use 'data:' requests with XHR? What's
> > the sense for this? The data is already on the client...
> >
> > 2013/9/19 Hallvord Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >> I see Gecko "fakes" a Content-Length header (visible to
> getAllResponseHeaders()) when you load a data: URL with XHR. This is wrong
> per the spec (which is explicitly requiring only a single Content-Type
> response header) but it looks more like a feature than a bug.. Should we
> spec it?
> >>
> >> Test:
> http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/master/XMLHttpRequest/data-uri-basic.htm(subtest getAllResponseHeaders())
> >> Current spec text:
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#data:-urls-and-http
> >> -Hallvord R
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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> > "Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
> > monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
> > Unix."
> > – Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux
> >
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