819051 - XMLHttpRequest.setRequestHeader() overwrites instead of combines values for the same header.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[jeff.vanvoorst]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 (FireFox 17.0.1).

Open javascript console, and set a non-standard HTTP request header:

xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", url);
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-appended-to-this", "True");
xhr.setRequestHeader("X-appended-to-this", "False");

.... Do rest of xhr


Actual results:

Open the firebug tool to inspect the XHR request.  The header "X-appended-to-this" was sent with the value "False".  Of course, the server also received "X-appended-to-this" with the value "False".


Expected results:

I expected (based on http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#request-method) that the header "X-appended-to-this" would be sent with the value "True; False".

I don't know if there is a good reason for not following the W3C draft.

Comment 1

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Same for the XHR Living Standard.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

> I don't know if there is a good reason for not following the W3C draft.

Probably that it wasn't implemented that way initially back before there was ever a draft.

Jonas, just flipping the last arg of nsIHttpChannel::SetRequestHeader would do the right thing here, right?  (Though note the value would be "True, False".)

Comment 3

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

Yup, sounds about right. And write a test :)

Comment 4

[Benedict Singer]

Attachment: Patch + test case.

This turns out to be not quite so simple as just changing a boolean, due to a) privileged callers, and b) overwriting default headers, but with some IRC discussion we think we've sorted it out. A new test case is included, and the old tests should all be passing (here's a good Try run, minus some known oranges: https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=b08b1629020e).

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky, bz on IRC]]

Comment on attachment 709327 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch + test case.

One other thing that needs to be done: mAlreadySetHeaders needs to be cleared in Open().  See http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest2/#the-open-method step 18

Please add a test for that?  Basicall call open(), set a header, call open() again, set the header again, then check that this overrode instead of merging.  You'll probably need to test with a default-set header like Accept or something, since the second open() will wipe out the HTTP channel.

r=me with that fixed and the test added.

Comment 6

[Benedict Singer]

Attachment: Final patch.

Indeed, without that someone setting 'Accept' would get it merged after a second open() call. Added a testcase to the new test for that, and fixed the issue. Nice green run (https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=59613714b24b).

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/a14a65fe91d5

Comment 8

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a14a65fe91d5

Comment 9

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Benedict, do you mind if I submit your test to the spec's test suite?

Comment 10

[Benedict Singer]

No, that's fine, go ahead.

Comment 11

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] (Bugzilla UX) (FxSiteCompat)]

I've added this bug to the compatibility doc. Please correct the info if I'm wrong.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Site_Compatibility_for_Firefox_21

Comment 12

[Hallvord R. M. Steen]

(In reply to :Ms2ger from comment #9)
> Benedict, do you mind if I submit your test to the spec's test suite?

Ms2ger, couldn't find anything that seemed relevant at https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pulls/Ms2ger - did you submit it?

Comment 13

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

No, never got around to it, I think. Feel free to do it yourself, or else I can do it at some point.

Comment 14

[Hallvord R. M. Steen]

Ms2ger: submitted at https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests/pull/239 (somewhat rewritten) - merge?

Comment 15

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

David: Last month, I've added "If this method is called several times with the same header, the values are merged into one single request header." to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest#setRequestHeader%28%29

Do you think it needs more docs?

Comment 16

[David Bruant]

Oh... and I missed kohei comment too. My mistake.

Comment 17

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

David: no problem, better a double check than none :-)