137240 - document.load() should be able to load documents with non-XML mime type

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194176

(Core :: XML, defect)

Description

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Apparently IE can do this. It should be pretty straight forward to do this
(using the same trick as was done with XMLHttpRequest and overrideMimeType()
method, but we need to figure out if the override should be always on, and what
kind of document does IE give you if you try to load HTML or text or something...).

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 137280 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

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Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

There are already many cases where Mozilla requires a proper Content-Type even
though IE tries to apply DWIM. Why would Mozilla "support" bad server
configuration in this particular case?

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

It is not only server issue, if you try to load an XML file with .foo extension
from your local disc it would also fail.

Also, document.load() is Microsoft extension, so we should try to follow them as
closely as possible.

Comment 5

[Rakesh Mishra]

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Comment 6

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Boris is working on DOM 3 Load & Save, so he might fix this in the process.

Comment 7

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194176 ***