527123 - XMLHttpRequest: set correct Content-Type header for send(DOMString)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Anne (:annevk)]

Specification: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/
WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11049

Currently Mozilla always defaults to application/xml. That's just wrong.

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

So, I see http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a3e1c960433b/content/base/src/nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp#l3100 which unconditionally sets the content type of mChannel to application/xml. However, we correctly pass text/plain to ExplicitSetUploadChannel earlier (since the GetResponseBody code for the string path sets that up); what's the interaction between the two here? Is this still valid?

Comment 2

[Thomas Wisniewski]

This was fixed in bug 1207233, which changed the default Content-Types sent for uploads to match the spec. DOMStrings are now sent with "text/plain;charset=UTF-8".