On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Glenn Maynard <gl...@zewt.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> >> Since it appears my original email went unnoticed, here's another try. >> >> I think what you are looking for is Streams. The resulting code would >> be something like: >> >> var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); >> xhr.responseType = "stream"; >> xhr.open(...); >> xhr.send(); >> var stream = xhr.result; >> otherGuy.postMessage(stream); > > > I don't recall that proposal, and the name is too generic to search for. > Can you give us a link?
Arthur was awesome enough to dig it up: <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/1494.html> <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/streams-api/raw-file/tip/Overview.htm> Though we would need to modify that proposal such that .response returns a stream also in the OPENED state as long as the "send() flag" is set. / Jonas