- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 10:26:22 +0300
- To: Валерий Котов <kotov.valery@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org, annevk@annevk.nl
This is the most up-to-date reference, btw:
http://httpwg.github.io/specs/rfc7230.html#asterisk-form
On 4 Sep 2014, at 9:32 pm, Валерий Котов <kotov.valery@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings everybody!
>
> My name is Valery. I'm currently working on adding support for "OPTION" http request method for XMLHttpRequest class inside Qt framework.
> According to RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#page-52) request uri can contian asterisk ("*"). Please see quotation from RFC below.
> "If the Request-URI is an asterisk ("*"), the OPTIONS request is intended to apply to the server in general rather than to a specific resource."
>
> Normally, to send http request the code should be like the following.
> var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
> req.open("OPTIONS", url);
> req.send(null);
>
> I had a look at http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ documents. Unfortunately, I can't find any mention about sending "OPTIONS *" request by using XMLHttpRequest class.
>
> Could you please tell if it is possible to send "OPTIONS *" http request by using XMLHttpRequest class? Could you please tell which syntax should be used to send "OPTIONS *" http request?
>
> Thank you for your support!
> --
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Valery Kotov
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Received on Friday, 5 September 2014 07:26:51 UTC