Re: [XHR] from Jonas Sicking on 2016-03-16 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2016)

From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:16:56 -0700
To: Gomer Thomas <gomer@gomert-consulting.com>
Cc: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hsteen@mozilla.com>, WebApps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CA+c2ei-nq6fer4jz=wGCE+sJxgLK1TSGne_xupcZO+HCTaFCBQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Gomer Thomas
<gomer@gomert-consulting.com> wrote:
> but I need a cross-browser solution in the near future

Another solution that I think would work cross-browser is to use
"text/plain;charset=ISO-8859-15" as content-type.

That way I *think* you can simply read xhr.responseText to get an ever
growing string with the data downloaded so far. Each character in the
string represents one byte of the downloaded data. So to get the 15th
byte, use xhr.responseText.charAt(15).

/ Jonas

Received on Wednesday, 16 March 2016 21:18:03 UTC