> > Secondly, by reading the spec I'd expect the second open() call > > to fire another event. The open() method, steps 15 and 16: > > > > 15 Change the state to OPENED. > > 16 Fire an event named readystatechange.
> > Doesn't imply that if the state is already OPENED, no new event > > is expected to fire. Does any other part of the spec indicate this? > Yeah, it seems two events should dispatch per current text. If > browsers do not do that maybe there should be a state check there and > those steps should become substeps. Well, obviously Chrome is the major implementation that does that. Firefox is different (it fires an event with readyState 1 for the first open(), one event with readyState 1 for the send(), one with readyState 4 and one with readyState 1 for the second open()). I have not tested IE - do you have an IE version that can handle http://w3c-test.org/web-platform-tests/submissions/103/XMLHttpRequest/open-send-open.htm ? -- Hallvord R. M. Steen Core tester, Opera Software
