On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:56 AM, Anne van Kesteren <ann...@annevk.nl> wrote: > I suppose a use case would be making a POST request or a request with > special headers set to access a video stream. You can createObjectURL on > the resulting Stream and pass that to <video>.
Fair point. > We can get "chunked" reads without an additional mode. Just add an > additional method, eg. clearResponse, which empties .response. This would > work for all modes that support incremental reads. For Blobs, this would > cause .response to return an empty blob and start filling up from scratch. > In other words, .response in incremental blob mode returns a slice of the > complete response in the range [start,end), where end is the total number of > bytes read, start is initialized to 0, and clearResponse sets start = end. Keeping the API closer to responseType/response seems nicer. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/