In Cannes, a few people expressed interest in the ad hoc HTTP testing
I've been doing on XmlHttpRequest implementations;
http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/
http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/cache.html
Recently, I've been concentrating on the caching tests. Most of them
are indicative of the browser's cache implementation, rather than
anything specific to XHR, but I would note that it appears that
browser caches currently don't pay attention to Cache-Control request
headers sent by XHR, which is disappointing.
If anyone is interested in helping, or has bug reports* or
suggestions for more tests, I'm all ears. The back end is a mish-mash
of Apache .htaccess config and CGI scripts, but I'll open source it
if there's interest.
Cheers,
* The only outright bug I know of now is a weird interaction with
Opera in the cache invalidation tests; I'm sure there are others.
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
