The FF/IE behavior looks to be in disagreement with the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#send
So it seems like both the spec and our code should be changed. Please file a bug: http://webkit.org/quality/reporting.html Bugs reported on the mailing list are unlikely to be fixed unless also added to the bugs database. -eric On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Keith Kowalczykowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm having a little problem with Safari (3.1) and the escaping of XML > when using XmlHttpRequest. The behavior that I'm seeing is that > Safari/Webkit is not properly escaping & and < when sending an XML document > to the server. For example, if I have the following XML document: > > <foo foo="a&b">a&b</foo> > > On Firefox/IE, the value sent to the server is: > > <foo foo"a&b">a&b</foo> > > However, on Safari, the value is: > > <foo foo="a&b">a&b</foo> > > I have included some proof-of-concept code at the end of this email. Please > let me know if there is something obvious that I'm doing wrong, or if this > is really a bug in Safari/Webkit. Thanks. > > -Keith > > Sample Code: > > This code simply creates an XML document that is the same as the example I > gave above. It then creates an XHR object and sends it to the server. The > server simply sends the received value back to the client, which is then > displayed using an alert dialog. Under IE and FF, this code works fine. > Under Safari, however, it does not. > > test.html > > <html> > <head> > </head> > > <body> > </body> > <script type="text/javascript"> > // Create a new document > var dom = document.implementation.createDocument("","", null); > > // Create the root node > var root = dom.appendChild(dom.createElement("foo")); > > // Add an attribute > root.setAttribute("foo", "a&b"); > > // Add a text node > var txt = dom.createTextNode("a&b"); > > // Append it > root.appendChild(txt); > > // Create the XHR object > var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); > xhr.open("POST", "test.php", true); > xhr.onreadystatechange = function() > { > if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) > { > alert(xhr.responseText); > } > }; > xhr.send(dom); > > > > </script> > > </html> > > test.php > > <?php > print @file_get_contents('php://input'); > ?> > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
