[html5] Web Workers: terminate() and XMLHttpRequest

[Tobias Sauerwein]

XMLHttpRequest has a "abort()" method [1], so maybe whatever this method
does "closes the request properly"? I was just worried that the connection
stays open after the web worker is terminated, and then after a while a kind
of "max. open connections" limit is reached, so that I won't be able to make
a new request. I don't know if there is such a limit.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-abort-method


On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org> wrote:

> What is "closed properly"? As far as implementation goes, Chromium for
> example will drop the request at some point, asynchronously but quite close
> to termination and discard any results, so it can be at any phase of
> completion. A mechanism with more guarantees would definitely require an
> explicit  spec language.
>
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Tobias Sauerwein <
> tobias.sauerwein at camptocamp.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I am wondering what happens when I start an asynchronous XMLHttpRequest in
>> a web worker and then terminate the web worker from the main script. Can I
>> assume that the request is closed properly? Because the "terminate a worker
>> algorithm" [1] does not explicitly say how to deal with open requests.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tobias
>>
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#terminate-a-worker
>>
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