405341 - Not possible to set "Connection: close" header using setRequestHeader XMLHttpRequest method

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[Rafał]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112005 Minefield/3.0b2pre

Using XMLHttpRequest setRequestHeader method to set Connection: close header does not work in Firefox 3 beta build

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create XHR request
2. Use setRequestHeader method to specify "Connection: close" header
3. Send request and see what headers are sent (server side way or by sniffing)
Actual Results:  
Sends general Connection: keep-alive header

Expected Results:  
Should send Connection: close we specified

Works as expected in firefox 2.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

I believe this is by design. The change was made in bug 389508, it seems.

http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#setrequestheader

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=/mozilla/content/base/src/nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp&rev=1.212#2172

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

By the way, thanks for a nice testcase!

Comment 3

[Rafał]

OK, thanks for clarification.

Comment 4

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Closing this as it seems to be by design. This has no relation to bug 389508 though.