On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:14:14 +0200, Stewart Brodie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What happens if you write a CGI script at the server that deliberately
waits a bit between receiving the request and sending the response? Do
IE & FF
switch to state 2 at *that* point? (i.e. indicating that it's finished
sending the request but it hasn't received the response headers back yet)
I tested that and it seemed like nothing changed. However, I'd love some
other people to try that out.
I prefer Opera's behaviour, FWIW. I don't like the idea that if you have
scripting that is checking up on the state of the XHR object, then it
will find that the readyState is still OPEN when actually you've already
invoked the send() method.
Suggestions for better names for OPEN and SENT are welcome. Unfortunately
we can't change the way the object works. If we could do that we would
probably redesign most of it anyway...
The problem is that an additional state is probably needed ("SENDING")
that covers the period of time during which the client is transmitting
the
request between OPEN and SENT. You already know that I strongly disagree
with the spurious readystatechange events when the ready state hasn't
changed. I wonder if this is what those spurious events are actually
for - to cover up the lack of a separate state between OPEN and SENT?
Dunno, Microsoft?
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
