Re: XHR setRequestHeader(connection, close) is bogusly rejected

2008-03-08 Thread Morgan L
--- Maciej Stachowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Morgan L wrote: Ah, that make sense to me. I think the current text has caused major browser engines to mistakenly stop supporting connection: close. It is easy to blindly implement whatever

Re: XHR setRequestHeader(connection, close) is bogusly rejected

2008-03-07 Thread Morgan L
--- Bjoern Hoehrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Morgan L wrote: In section 2 of http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/, it says that setRequestHeader should reject the connection header. The purpose of these restrictions is to remind implementers that the user agent has to control

XHR setRequestHeader(connection, close) is bogusly rejected

2008-03-06 Thread Morgan L
Hi, I'm writing about what appears to be an error in the XHR TR. In section 2 of http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/, it says that setRequestHeader should reject the connection header. However, there are web apps in existence (e.g., Gmail) that set the connection: close header to inform the