[whatwg] Accessing cookies from workers

Drew Wilson atwilson at google.com
Mon Mar 9 17:11:12 PDT 2009


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> > and most important
> > 3) why it did actually happen in my code? (using an async XHR)
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> Not sure what you are saying here. Do you have example code.
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I think what he's talking about the issue described at
http://www.nerdgod.com/ie7test2.html.

I was CC'd on an email thread about this last year - IE can sometimes call
xhr callbacks at inappropriate times (like when in the middle of a JS
function call). Summarizing the thread, it seems that invoking certain JS
functions in IE (like alert()) can cause IE to re-enter the message loop and
start processing messages which can cause things like XHR request callbacks
to be invoked.

I'm pretty sure this is better classified as a bug in IE rather than as
expected JS language behavior, though.

-atw
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