1110761 - InvalidStateError raised when setting XMLHttpRequest.responseType while in state UNSENT

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 707484

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Alexandre Garnier]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141125180439

Steps to reproduce:

Set XMLHttpRequest.responseType while in UNSENT


Actual results:

InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable


Expected results:

No error.
Accordinlgy to http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-responsetype-attribute, this error should be thrown only in LOADING or DONE state.


Please see http://www.zigarn.com/test-set-responseType.html for trying to set 'responseType' on different states of XMLHttpRequest.
Result on Firefox 34.0:
XHR state: UNSENT ==> exception: InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable
XHR state: OPENED ==> no exception
XHR state: HEADERS_RECEIVED ==> no exception
XHR state: LOADING ==> exception: InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable
XHR state: DONE ==> exception: InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable

Result on Chrome 39.0.2171.71m:
XHR state: UNSENT ==> no exception
XHR state: OPENED ==> no exception
XHR state: HEADERS_RECEIVED ==> no exception
XHR state: LOADING ==> exception: InvalidStateError: Failed to set the 'responseType' property on 'XMLHttpRequest': The response type cannot be set if the object's state is LOADING or DONE.
XHR state: DONE ==> exception: InvalidStateError: Failed to set the 'responseType' property on 'XMLHttpRequest': The response type cannot be set if the object's state is LOADING or DONE.

Result on Internet Explorer 11.0.14:
XHR state: UNSENT ==> exception: InvalidStateError
XHR state: OPENED ==> no exception
XHR state: OPENED ==> no exception
 XHR state: HEADERS_RECEIVED ==> no exception
XHR state: LOADING ==> exception: InvalidStateError
XHR state: DONE ==> exception: InvalidStateError

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This reproduces on Nightly on OS X as well.

Comment 2

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

http://web-platform.test:8000/XMLHttpRequest/responsetype.html

Comment 3

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Or <http://w3c-test.org/XMLHttpRequest/responsetype.html> online.

Comment 4

[Nathan Vander Wilt]

The workaround is described in e.g. http://forums.udacity.com/questions/100022122/cross-browser-xmlhttprequestresponsetype — do not try to set `.responseType` before calling `.open()` lest you hit this out-of-spec behavior.

Comment 5

[Ming-Chou Shih [:stone]]

It seems this bug was resolved by https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b5bec86469c8#l1.38
I verified the test case responsetype.html with my local build and it passed.

Comment 6

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Shouldn't this be marked as fixed as of 38, then?

Comment 7

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Let's call it a dupe.