CVS log for 2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.src.html

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make requirement for Accept:*/*

fix several examples; clarify some text

add 2109 back even though cookie specs are useless

add a reference to HTTPONLY cookies

add a note for TRACK; add Authorization / Cookie / Cookie2; add TLS negotiation failure; rephrase DOM requirements

make several small editorial changes per LC comments

make Accept always present; explain error/send() flags

fix two typos; make ED draft

prepare for Last Call publication

return null for invalid headers in getResponseHeader()

getAllResponseHeaders() returns the empty strng in case of failure/non same-origin

update the XMLHttpRequest stuff to not throw exceptions for responseText and responseXML; responseText is always a DOMString too

ban headers starting with Sec-

responseText shall return the empty string

GET will not have an entity body

use inputEncoding for encoding a Document

ensure charset is set to UTF-8

make 'conforming xml user agent' more 'clear' plus several non-normative changes

set accept-language conditionally

accept-language is not to be set by the UA

fix DOM2Events ref

do acknowledgments different

HttpOnly; remove duplicate stuff

use event handler attribute dfn from HTML5; document pointer

make the method story with respect to security more clear

DOM3Events -> DOM2Events; clearly mark dependency on HTML5; remove dependency on obsolete Window spec

reword

change case-insensitive dfn; add security consideration sec

no need for a base style sheet

make draft ready for publication; remove note I missed earlier

make some editorial changes

header not match syntax production -> empty string

typo

remove data: URL support for now

remove obsolete reference

solve last issue with respect to same-origin and make some editorial changes

define which Document object same-origin is checked against

use term ihost; can't use baseURI; clearly mark open issue about which Document object to use

reference HTML5

define same-origin

define XML user agent better; small editorial change

less UTF-8; note work in progress in references

clarify how exceptions work; introduce SECURITY_ERR definition into this draft to guide implementors

fix typos

The anti-UTF-8 dev.w3.org movement has won.

set send() flag to 'false' later on in the abort() algorithm to ensure the algorithm functions properly

s/OPEN state/OPENED state/ to avoid case issue with IDL; minor editorial fixes

add latest 'previous version'

disallow anything that starts with 'Proxy-'

improve fragment identifiers

forgot EH; editorial changes

block Proxy-Connection header for security reasons

add a note saying that responseXML just gives you a (static) tree

make it an editor's draft again and make several editorial changes

make several editorial fixes at request of Denis

add Stewart to the list of acknowledgements

introduce error flag to more clearly indicate behavior; fix getResponseHeader() and getAllResponseHeaders()

introduce HEADERS_RECEIVED

fix CSS and update date as requested by W3C webmaster

introduce ABORT_ERR; hopefully last new feature needed...

make it a W3C WD ready for publication

introduce class=switch

high potential for errors: make the send() algorithm more explicit and add text/html charset detection

fix some typos; fix SENT; remove some incorrect EOL

drop text/xsl

make a small clarification to the charset detection algorithm

mention overrideMimeType

simplify charset detection for text response entity body

forget a bunch of people in the list of acknowledgements

cover BOM detection in text response entity body

s/stop/terminate/

fix markup error

clarify how the send() algorithm might get aborted and make it a bit more explicit

change some of the cross references around response entity body and remove a redundant paragraph

410 Conforming script

markup fix

make it more explicit when the send() flag is set to "false"

make XML response entity body steps slightly more clear and fix the send() flag pointers

elaborate on non same-origin; change when the send() flag is set; fix an obvious error with the default value of async

throw NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR for unsupported schemes, fix two (editorial) mistakes

grr

address comments from Bjoern; don't dispatch event after an exception and allow responseXML for no Content-Type responses

terminate the phrase 'abort these steps' in favor of 'terminate these steps'

doesn't -> does not; don't -> do not

remove lots of redundant conformance requirements; thanks Simon for pointing that out!

clean up 'Conformance' a bit more

introduce Conforming XML user agent based on a comment from Maciej

make some more minor comments to satisfy a comment

make some editorial changes based on feedback from Mohamed on public-webapi

add text/xsl and fix an editorial issue; also update DoC

remove some old stuff and define charset sniffing for responseText

reset response entity body as opposed to the attributes

define response entity body, text response entity body and xml response entity body

define send() flag up front

change RECEIVING to the simpler LOADING

when the state is DONE don't dispatch readystatechange

editorial: simplify some language

when abort() is invoked you don't always switch to DONE and dispatch readystatechange

fix editorial typos and make sure state switching happens synchronously as well during send()

make the last two steps of responseXML more clear

define case-insensitive match

s/LOADED/DONE/ as that better reflects the state

more formatting

editorial

formatting fix

first step at fixing responseXML; mark up a MAY

fix some conformance requirements based on a comment from Simon Pieters; add a note about addressing case-insensitive

typo; thanks bjoern

fix some typos pointed out in LC comments; fix readystatechange, statusText and status based on comments from Hixie

several typos + s/UNINITIALIZED/UNSENT/

change the layout of the "IDL", fix an issue with setRequestHeader (value or header being null)

No need to list Date twice + editorial

add four more headers that need to be ignored for security reasons and add a list of other HTTP methods that potentially need to be uppercased

make sure readystatechange is dispatched after send() is invoked as well and fix abort()

editorial

improve variable names and say that people should support XML for interop reasons

some more editorial; also fix status to say editor's draft

some more editorial; also fix status to say editor's draft

fix the wording of the readystatechange event

editorial fix

fix abort()

change setRequestHeader() to do what IE does

handle method invocation as a set of steps to ensure correct order of dispatching of exceptions and to make it more clear what is expected; be more clear about when events are to be dispatched; introduce constants; merge section 2.0 and 2.1; my apologies for doing this all in one go; more changes to come though