[whatwg] Enhancement request: change EventSource to allow cross-domain access

[Ian Hickson]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Per-Erik Brodin wrote:
> On 2011-06-17 21:57, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, ilya goberman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Can EventSource be enhanced to support cross-domain requests via
> > > "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header, just like it is already done for
> > > XHR? See
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#Cross-domain_requests.
> > 
> > Done.
> 
> Great news!
> The same-origin check in step 4 under "When the EventSource() constructor is
> invoked .." is still present.

Oops. Fixed.


> According to the CORS specification, a request is not to be terminated 
> even when the resource sharing check fails. However, when using CORS 
> with EventSource I think it may be justified since the response is 
> typically not returned right away.

Not sure what you mean here. Could you elaborate?


> The Cache-Control request header used with EventSource is not in the 
> list of simple request headers and a preflight request is not really an 
> option here in my opinion.

Not sure what you mean by "simple request headers". The Cache-Control 
header isn't a custom header, so it doesn't affect whether you use a 
preflight or not. I've clarified the spec.

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