[whatwg] ContextAgnosticXmlHttpRequest: an informal RFC

[Jim Ley]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 01:31:50 -0800, Chris Holland <frenchy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:57:12 +0000, Jim Ley <jim.ley at gmail.com> wrote:
>If the User Agent is a traditional web
> browser, the only way a given document could ever initiate a request
> to a host different from the one that served it, would be through a
> ContextAgnosticHttpRequest (i'm liking this name less and less, sorry
> about that), and this request would infallibly send, in every request,
> the full URI of the document initiating the request, as the value of
> the "Referer" header.

Are you sure you're not advocating this to get around privacy based
proxies of the type that normally disable such referrer based content
so as to reliably block
privacy invasions?

> > Please don't have any solution that limits the user to XML, it's a
> > pointless arbritrary restriction that offers nothing but serious
> > performance hits to the client, and complications to the user.
> 
> well it would appear XML validity already is a restriction, but okee.

Nope, there's no such restriction, and very few of the implementations
that I know of that use xmlhttprequest on websites use XML.

Jim.