Le mardi 09 septembre 2008 à 16:10 +0100, Geoffrey Sneddon a écrit : > > Well, at least when an outgoing XmlHttpRequest goes with a body, the > > spec could require that upon setting the Content-Encoding header to > > "gzip" or "deflate", that the body be adequately transformed. Or is > > there another e.g. to POST a gzip request with Content-Encoding? > > Why can it not just be added transparently by the XHR implementation?
I'm sure it could, but if one implementation does it and another doesn't, this leads to interoperability problems - hence the usefulness of documenting it in the spec. Or this is there any catchall requirements in the spec that covers it? Dom
