[whatwg] data URLs and XMLHttpRequest

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Thu Sep 6 11:47:02 PDT 2012


On Wed, 18 Jul 2012, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>
> I think we should expand http://html5.org/r/7180 with a mention of 
> XMLHttpRequest's open() method. XMLHttpRequest already has a section 
> detailing how data URLs behave in an HTTP context, but they are not yet 
> explicitly allowed. Allowing them in the same way as workers seems like 
> a good idea to me.

I ended up reverting that text, it didn't really work. Is there anything 
else you need for XHR instead?

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