[XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Hi, see below some comments on the current draft. Best regards, Julian +++ 1. Introduction "First, the object is data transport agnostic - it supports any data format, including XML." Actually, it doesn't. As far as I can tell, it only supports text based formats and XML. There's no way

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:00:54 +0100, Julian Reschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: see below some comments on the current draft. Thanks! 1. Introduction "First, the object is data transport agnostic - it supports any data format, including XML." Actually, it doesn't. As far as I can tell,

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren schrieb: Actually, it doesn't. As far as I can tell, it only supports text based formats and XML. There's no way to send or retrieve binary content. Fair enough. In due course it will though. Fixed. That would be great. It's a missing piece for writing a useful WebDAV auth

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 20:13:52 +0100, Julian Reschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Otherwise, if the nominated request header field already has a value, the new value MUST be combined with the existing value (section 4.2, [RFC2616])." That's a bit misleading. What does "combine" mean precisel

Re: XMLHttpRequest for Last Call

2007-02-17 Thread Robert Sayre
On 2/13/07, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8 as Last Call Working Draft by next Monday. If you have any objections please post them to the public list. Where do the

Re: XMLHttpRequest for Last Call

2007-02-17 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:15:04 +0100, Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where do the requirements for the username and password productions come from? Is there an old list discussion on them? Mainly offlist feedback. There's been some discussion (on list) on the userinfo production thoug

Re: XMLHttpRequest for Last Call

2007-02-17 Thread Robert Sayre
On 2/17/07, Anne van Kesteren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:15:04 +0100, Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where do the requirements for the username and password productions > come from? Is there an old list discussion on them? Mainly offlist feedback. There's been

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Anne van Kesteren schrieb: That's a bit misleading. What does "combine" mean precisely? Is the intent to require implementations to assume that the header format is a comma-separated list? Yes. So please clarify. Section 4.2 already talks about this quite explicitly. What do you want it

Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comments on Feb 13 draft

2007-02-17 Thread Julian Reschke
Julian Reschke schrieb: "User agents MUST at least support the following list of methods (see [RFC2616]): * GET * POST * HEAD * PUT * DELETE " Why is OPTIONS missing from this list? Because it's not generally supported and vendors had concerns about it. If you can