On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> Is it more surprising than that >> >> xhr.send(hasSomethingToSend() ? getTheThingToSend() : ""); >> >> sets the Content-Type header even when no body is submitted? > > That's exactly what I would expect. A body that happens to have a zero > length is still valid text/plain data. > > If you want to omit Content-Type in the above case, then you should write: > > xhr.send(hasSomethingToSend() ? getTheThingToSend() : null);
Or, of course: if(hasSomethingToSend()) xhr.send(getTheThingToSend()); ~TJ
