Re: [whatwg] HTTP status code from JavaScript

On 2014-05-23 06:53, Michael Heuberger wrote:
> Hi James
>
> Single page apps!
>
> These become more and more popular with frameworks like RactiveJS or
> AngularJS. There the first request is a HTTP request, for any subsequent
> requests an AJAX one is generated. The problem is the first HTTP

AJAX requests are HTTP requests.

I assume you mean the distinction between "page navigation" and "using 
XMLHTTPRequest"?

> request. The framework is unable to detect 404s with the first request
> because the status code cannot be obtained via JavaScript, hence a
> second request is made.

If the initial page load yields a 404 will there be any scripts to 
execute at all?

> In my eyes, a waste of bandwidth.
>
> Cheers
> Michael

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 23 May 2014 06:07:03 UTC