- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 08:05:13 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com> wrote in message news:b9g2u8$er0$9@main.gmane.org... > getURL/postURL > > On these I would like to add further parameters, this wouldn't break > backwards compatibility, (in older viewers they'd just be ignored) but would > be very useful, the parameter I'd like to add would be an object defining > Headers, either just the Accept header, or if possible all. > > My aim is to not have to have seperate uris for different representations of > the same thing. So I can do a getURL request for an XML document, and get > just the XML document, or I can do the same and get back an SVG document, or > an RDF document or ... Setting the Accept header would allow this. Setting > other headers might also be useful (accept-language for example in a > switch'd block on language) I forgot to mention I'd also like to have other verbs available to me than just GET and POST, the XMLHTTPRequest object (misnamed as it has little to do with XML) from MS or Mozilla would be the sort of thing, removing getURL/postURL for just such an object may even be preferred (it's trivial to implement getURL/postURL in terms of such an object.) Jim.
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