This is the most up-to-date reference, btw: http://httpwg.github.io/specs/rfc7230.html#asterisk-form
On 4 Sep 2014, at 9:32 pm, Валерий Котов <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings everybody! > > My name is Valery. I'm currently working on adding support for "OPTION" http > request method for XMLHttpRequest class inside Qt framework. > According to RFC (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#page-52) request uri can > contian asterisk ("*"). Please see quotation from RFC below. > "If the Request-URI is an asterisk ("*"), the OPTIONS request is intended to > apply to the server in general rather than to a specific resource." > > Normally, to send http request the code should be like the following. > var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); > req.open("OPTIONS", url); > req.send(null); > > I had a look at http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/ and > http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/ documents. Unfortunately, I can't find > any mention about sending "OPTIONS *" request by using XMLHttpRequest class. > > Could you please tell if it is possible to send "OPTIONS *" http request by > using XMLHttpRequest class? Could you please tell which syntax should be used > to send "OPTIONS *" http request? > > Thank you for your support! > -- > > Sincerely yours, > Valery Kotov -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
