Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 09:25:42 +0200, Julian Reschke
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Anne van Kesteren wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:26:07 +0200, Julian Reschke
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Anne van Kesteren wrote:
- On the send algorithm, step 4 ("If stored method is GET act as
if the data argument is null"), why only GET and not HEAD, also?
In order to subset HTTP as little as possible.
Well, *if* you subset it, please make it in a consistent way. If the
subsetting applies to GET, it should also apply to HEAD.
Would it stop with HEAD or would there be more methods to consider
going forward? If it's just HEAD I suppose we could add it, yes.
It would stop with HEAD, because HEAD and GET by definition should do
the same thing (except for HEAD not returning the response body).
Actually, it seems that implementations do pass it through for HEAD. It
is just GET where they don't and given that we can't allow it for
cross-site GET requests anyway I think forward consistency is desirable.
More background information is available in this thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2007Dec/thread.html#msg8
Yep, lots of discussion.
Anyway, an implementation that drops the body on GET but not on HEAD
*very* clearly is buggy. The XHR spec should not mandate these kind of bugs.
BR, Julian
