- From: Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen <hallvord@hallvord.com>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:11:19 +0200
On 3 Jul 2005 at 21:30, Jim Ley wrote: >> So, should we not tell the JavaScript that a 304 response was >> returned, but show the original response including headers? Views? > Absolutely not! Thanks for your opinion and arguments :-) I sort of think it is a bad idea too. However.. > It's trivial to work around That is obvious. However, *will* people work around it, or will the browser that is better at caching documents be at a disadvantage because web apps will mysteriously appear broken to the end user..? I don't think IE ever sends a conditional request for a document requested via XMLHttpRequest (I don't know every corner of the HTTP caching spec though). If apps are tested mainly with IE and somewhat superficially in other browsers, these minor browsers will be penalised for their caching. I think faking 200 would be in the interest of smaller browsers and make life simpler for JS authors under most conditions (I don't see much of a use case for wanting to know about the 304 response..) -- Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen http://www.hallvord.com/
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