On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:47:50 +0100, Kris Zyp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
- it needs to be hints from the application, not control.
I don't mind if the wording is such that all the API level properties
are treated as hints/suggestions for the underlying HTTP subsystems,
that is fine. Letting the core systems have the final say seems
appropriate. But without these hints a number of important capabilites
of emerging web technologies are being severely hampered. XHR already
has a lot of relatively low level capabilities including access to and
modification of headers (which can be overriden by the underlying
subsystems). At least hinting at expectations of long-lived responses
and optimum pipeline orderings does not seem out of line with what XHR
is.
Headers are not a transport detail. Together with the entity body and the
HTTP method they form the request. Pipelining on the other hand is
something totally different.
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Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
