- From: James Greene <james.m.greene@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 23:39:31 -0500
- To: Michael Heuberger <michael.heuberger@binarykitchen.com>
- Cc: WHATWG <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
I'm not opposed to this idea but... what Is a realistic use case for this?
Sincerely,
James Greene
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Michael Heuberger <
michael.heuberger@binarykitchen.com> wrote:
> Hello WhatWG
>
> There is a need to obtain the HTTP status code for the page itself from
> JavaScript:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=999886
>
> I think this would be a great feature to save additional traffic in an
> already congested internet. Because I see lots of queries made by
> XMLHttpRequest solely to obtain the HTTP status code of the same URL.
>
> If the global browser variable (JavaScript) would already hold the
> status code, then these queries would become obsolete and the internet
> becomes a bit less blocked.
>
> Let me know how to proceed with my proposal within WhatWG.
>
> Greetings from Auckland,
> Michael
>
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