[whatwg] Comments on the XMLHttpRequest::setRequestHeader spec

[Jim Ley]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:07:02 +0100, Christian Biesinger
<cbiesinger at web.de> wrote:
> - This Spec does not allow sending a User-Agent header, is that intended?

Current implementations do, so as this is supposedly capturing current
behaviour, then it has to.

> - it implies that the request does not contain a referrer (though that
> may be the intention)

Current implementations do, so as this is supposedly capturing current
behaviour, then it has to.

> Then, two content-negotiation issues:
> - it prohibits sending Accept-Language
> - it also prohibits sending Accept:

Nothing should be excluded, and existing implementations exclude
nothing, again this is not capturing existing implementations.

Jim.