[whatwg] XMLHttpRequest

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Joe Gregorio wrote:
>
> It is just an edge case, but when using the XMLHttpRequest
> setRequestHeader()[1] what are the rules for over-riding existing
> headers?
> 
> For example, what if you are already authenticated and called
> setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'blah')?
> 
> Does the rule for concatenation apply to headers
> not created by setRequestHeader? 

I have attempted to answer this question at:

   http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#setrequestheader

Let me know if the new text is satisfactory. (In short, it depends based 
on which header the author tries to override.)

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