On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 09:30:32 -0800, Jonas Sicking <[email protected]> wrote:
On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, Andrew Oakley <[email protected]>
wrote:
It seems fairly common to call overrideMimeType before open(), but
should throw an InvalidStateError according to current XHR2 editors
draft.
If you search (Google) for overrideMimeType a significant number of
first page results show calling of overrideMimeType before the open
call, so I imagine this will become increasingly common as people
copy+paste.
I don't think this is a particularly problematic thing to allow so can
we please update the spec to allow this?
And for the sake of consistency and ease of use, we should allow setting
.responseType at that time too.
Currently open() resets a bunch of a state. If we are going to allow
setting state before open() is invoked we should rethink how open() ought
to work. I.e. what it resets and what should be kept as before.
If we change this it makes sense to change withCredentials and timeout too
I would say. What about setRequestHeader()?
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