Re: [XHR]

If I understand correctly, streams [1] with fetch should solve this
use-case.

[1] https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:10 AM Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <
hsteen@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Gomer Thomas
> <gomer@gomert-consulting.com> wrote:
>
> > According to IETF RFC 7230 all HTTP recipients “MUST be able to parse the
> > chunked transfer coding”. The logical interpretation of this is that
> > whenever possible HTTP recipients should deliver the chunks to the
> > application as they are received, rather than waiting for the entire
> > response to be received before delivering anything.
> >
> > In the latest version this can only be done for “text” responses. For any
> > other type of response, the “response” attribute returns “null” until the
> > transmission is completed.
>
> How would you parse for example an incomplete JSON source to expose an
> object? Or incomplete XML markup to create a document? Exposing
> partial responses for text makes sense - for other types of data
> perhaps not so much.
> -Hallvord
>
>