Closed Bug 335149 Opened 18 years ago Closed 8 years ago

requestMethod case issues

Categories

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: HTTP
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: bzbarsky, Unassigned)

Details

The documentation for requestMethod on nsIHttpChannel says:

 63      * Set/get the HTTP request method (default is "GET").  Setter is case
 64      * insensitive; getter returns an uppercase string.

That's not actually what we do, though.  In particular, that's not what the getter does.  See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2006Apr/0352.html for a description of our behavior.

In general, the whole thread starting at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2006Apr/0126.html is worth skimming; the question is whether we would be able to implement case-sensitive request methods if the XMLHttpRequest spec demanded them.
the idl is clear now that getter and setter is case sensitive
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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