Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:09:37 +0200, Jonas Sicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It does seem fairly complicated to allow it to be set after the
download is finished though. You do have the stream stored in
.reponse[Text], but at that point all encoding information has been
lost. For HTML parsing (which I hope the spec will support in the
future) there are a pile of rules used to guess the encoding, all of
which would be useful to use, but can't be used if all you have access
to is the unencoded responseBody.
It would make sense for consistency with the other methods if the method
throws if you try to invoke it after send() has been invoked. Can that
still be changed in implementations? And maybe also throw a SYNTAX_ERR
if it does not match the MIME type syntax (also for consistency).
For mozilla this would be an easy change since setting it after data
starts coming in is a no-op. So we don't really risk breaking anyone who
wasn't broken already.
Sounds like it would be a bigger change for apple.
/ Jonas
