598567 - Ajax call does not set header for Connection

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Anup Kataria]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 4.0.20506)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 4.0.20506)

Hi, 

While making a Ajax call I use to set header as follows: 

oXMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close"); 

But when I look at the Header being posted on the site it says Connection to keep-alive. 

I have checked it with different methods, using JQuery Ajax call and even using a XMLHttpRequest object. 


Thanks 
Anup Katariya 




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a XMLHttpRequest Object 
2.  SetResquestHeader to set the connection to close. 
3.  Post the (Send the request) 
Actual Results:  
It sends Connection as Keep-Alive in the request header. 

Expected Results:  
It should send Connection as Close in the request header.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#the-setrequestheader%28%29-method step 5 says that attempts by the page to set this header should be ignored.  So we're doing the right thing per spec.  Please mail [e-mail] if you think the spec should be changed.