759624 - Handling of user/password in XHR is not correct per spec

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1456421

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

E.g. we treat "empty string" as "no value passed", which is not right.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

But there are other issues too, afaict: we ignore the password if the user was not passed, say.

Comment 2

[Reuben Morais [:reuben]]

Attachment: Fix handling of user and passwords in XHR

Ran into the comment while looking at other bugs. I don't know if this wasn't fixed because of compatibility problems or it's just that nobody bothered, but here's a patch. Changed the WPT because as far as I can tell there's nothing in the spec that supports those assertions, the logic is much simpler.

I don't know who to ask for review, everyone is either super busy or unavailable, so NI? myself to try again later.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

No one bothered, but that does not mean there are no compatibility problems.  The first step here is figuring out what the behavior of current UAs is.