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1.229 avankest 33: <h1 class="head" id="the-xmlhttprequest-object">XMLHttpRequest</h1>
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1.149 avankest 36: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="w3c-doctype">[LONGSTATUS] [DATE: 3 August 2002]</h2>
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1.1 avankest 38: <dl>
1.10 avankest 39: <dt>This Version:</dt>
1.246 avankest 40: <dd><a href="[VERSION]/">http://www.w3.org/TR/[YEAR]/ED-XMLHttpRequest-[CDATE]/</a></dd>
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1.10 avankest 42: <dt>Latest Version:</dt>
1.1 avankest 43: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/">http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/</a></dd>
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1.189 avankest 45: <dt>Latest Editor Version:</dt>
46: <dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/">http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/</a></dd>
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1.10 avankest 48: <dt>Previous Versions:</dt>
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1.231 avankest 50: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20090820/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20090820/</a></dd>
1.173 avankest 51: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20080415/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20080415/</a></dd>
1.154 avankest 52: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20071026/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20071026/</a></dd>
1.133 avankest 53: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/</a></dd>
1.58 avankest 54: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070227/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070227/</a></dd>
1.22 avankest 55: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060927/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060927/</a></dd>
1.1 avankest 56: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060619/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060619/</a></dd>
57: <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20060405/</a></dd>
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1.1 avankest 61: <dt>Editor:</dt>
62: <dd><a href="http://annevankesteren.nl/">Anne van Kesteren</a>
63: (<a href="http://www.opera.com/">Opera Software ASA</a>)
64: <<a href="mailto:annevk@opera.com">annevk@opera.com</a>></dd>
65: </dl>
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1.1 avankest 67: <p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
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1.1 avankest 80: <hr>
1.12 avankest 81:
1.1 avankest 82: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="specabstract">Abstract</h2>
1.10 avankest 83:
1.248 avankest 84:
85:
1.229 avankest 86: <p>The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API
1.207 avankest 87: that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between
88: a client and a server.</p>
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1.12 avankest 90:
1.1 avankest 91: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="sotd">Status of this Document</h2>
1.12 avankest 92:
1.1 avankest 93: <p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
1.36 avankest 94: publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current
95: W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be
96: found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports index</a>
1.117 avankest 97: at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p>
1.36 avankest 98:
1.248 avankest 99: <p>This is the [DATE: 3 August 2002] <!--Last Call Working Draft-->[LONGSTATUS] of
100: XMLHttpRequest. Please send comments to
101: <a href="mailto:public-webapps@w3.org?subject=[XHR]%20">public-webapps@w3.org</a>
1.207 avankest 102: (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/">archived</a>)
1.248 avankest 103: with <samp>[XHR]</samp> at the start of the subject line.</p>
1.51 avankest 104:
1.47 avankest 105: <p>This document is produced by the
1.248 avankest 106: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/">Web Applications</a> (WebApps) Working Group.
107: The WebApps Working Group is part of the
1.207 avankest 108: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/Activity">Rich Web Clients Activity</a>
1.248 avankest 109: in the W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/Interaction/">Interaction Domain</a>.</p>
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1.1 avankest 111: <p>This document was produced by a group operating under the
1.248 avankest 112: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February 2004
113: W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a
1.207 avankest 114: <a rel="disclosure" href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42538/status">public
1.248 avankest 115: list of any patent disclosures</a> made in connection with the deliverables of
116: the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An
117: individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes
118: contains
1.36 avankest 119: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">Essential
120: Claim(s)</a> must disclose the information in accordance with
121: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section
122: 6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>.</p>
1.12 avankest 123:
1.248 avankest 124: <p>Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
125: Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
126: obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this
127: document as other than work in progress.</p>
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129:
1.1 avankest 130: <h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="toc">Table of Contents</h2>
1.21 avankest 131:
1.1 avankest 132: <!--toc-->
1.12 avankest 133:
1.207 avankest 134:
135:
1.1 avankest 136: <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2>
1.12 avankest 137:
1.1 avankest 138: <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
1.12 avankest 139:
1.183 avankest 140: <p>The <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object implements an interface exposed
141: by a scripting engine that allows scripts to perform HTTP client
142: functionality, such as submitting form data or loading data from a
143: server. It is the ECMAScript HTTP API.</p>
1.24 avankest 144:
1.1 avankest 145: <p>The name of the object is <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> for compatibility
1.183 avankest 146: with the Web, though each component of this name is potentially
147: misleading. First, the object supports any text based format, including
148: XML. Second, it can be used to make requests over both HTTP and HTTPS
149: (some implementations support protocols in addition to HTTP and HTTPS, but
150: that functionality is not covered by this specification). Finally, it
151: supports "requests" in a broad sense of the term as it pertains to HTTP;
152: namely all activity involved with HTTP requests or responses for the
153: defined HTTP methods.</p>
1.12 avankest 154:
1.14 avankest 155: <div class="example">
1.250 avankest 156: <p>Some simple code to do something with data from an XML document
157: fetched over the network:</p>
1.16 avankest 158:
1.58 avankest 159: <pre><code>function test(data) {
1.14 avankest 160: // taking care of data
161: }
162:
163: function handler() {
1.117 avankest 164: if(this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
1.14 avankest 165: // so far so good
1.117 avankest 166: if(this.responseXML != null && this.responseXML.getElementById('test').firstChild.data)
167: // success!
1.14 avankest 168: test(this.responseXML.getElementById('test').firstChild.data);
169: else
170: test(null);
1.117 avankest 171: } else if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status != 200) {
1.14 avankest 172: // fetched the wrong page or network error...
173: test(null);
174: }
175: }
1.12 avankest 176:
1.14 avankest 177: var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
178: client.onreadystatechange = handler;
1.250 avankest 179: client.open("GET", "unicorn.xml");
1.58 avankest 180: client.send();</code></pre>
1.16 avankest 181:
1.56 avankest 182: <p>If you just want to log a message to the server:</p>
1.16 avankest 183:
1.58 avankest 184: <pre><code>function log(message) {
1.14 avankest 185: var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
1.56 avankest 186: client.open("POST", "/log");
1.57 avankest 187: client.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain;charset=UTF-8");
1.14 avankest 188: client.send(message);
1.58 avankest 189: }</code></pre>
1.16 avankest 190:
1.14 avankest 191: <p>Or if you want to check the status of a document on the server:</p>
1.16 avankest 192:
1.58 avankest 193: <pre><code>function fetchStatus(address) {
1.14 avankest 194: var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
195: client.onreadystatechange = function() {
196: // in case of network errors this might not give reliable results
197: if(this.readyState == 4)
198: returnStatus(this.status);
199: }
200: client.open("HEAD", address);
201: client.send();
1.58 avankest 202: }</code></pre>
1.14 avankest 203: </div>
1.12 avankest 204:
1.203 avankest 205:
206:
1.248 avankest 207:
208: <h2 id="conformance">Conformance Criteria</h2>
1.12 avankest 209:
1.27 avankest 210: <p>Everything in this specification is normative except for diagrams,
211: examples, notes and sections marked non-normative.</p>
1.12 avankest 212:
1.1 avankest 213: <p>The key words <em class="ct">must</em>, <em class="ct">must not</em>,
1.74 avankest 214: <em class="ct">should</em> and <em class="ct">may</em> in this document are
215: to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
216: [<cite><span>RFC2119</span></cite>]</p>
1.12 avankest 217:
1.1 avankest 218: <p>This specification defines the following classes of products:</p>
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1.1 avankest 220: <dl>
1.74 avankest 221: <dt><dfn id="conforming-user-agent">Conforming user agent</dfn></dt>
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1.74 avankest 223: <dd>
224: <p>A user agent <em class="ct">must</em> behave as described in this
1.106 avankest 225: specification in order to be considered conformant.</p>
1.95 avankest 226:
1.248 avankest 227:
1.224 avankest 228: <p>If the user agent is not a <span>conforming XML user agent</span> the
229: <span>XML response entity body</span> <em class="ct">must</em> (always)
1.239 avankest 230: be null.</p>
1.248 avankest 231:
1.140 avankest 232:
233: <p>User agents <em class="ct">may</em> implement algorithms given in
234: this specification in any way desired, so long as the end result is
235: indistinguishable from the result that would be obtained by the
236: specification's algorithms.</p>
1.110 avankest 237:
1.95 avankest 238: <p class="note">This specification uses both the terms "conforming user
239: agent(s)" and "user agent(s)" to refer to this product class.</p>
1.74 avankest 240: </dd>
1.248 avankest 241:
1.94 avankest 242: <dt><dfn id="conforming-xml-user-agent">Conforming XML user agent</dfn></dt>
1.110 avankest 243:
1.224 avankest 244: <dd><p>An XML user agent <em class="ct">must</em> be a
245: <span>conforming user agent</span> and <em class="ct">must</em> be a
246: conforming XML processor that reports violations of
247: namespace well-formedness. [<cite><span>XML</span></cite>]</p></dd>
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1.32 avankest 250:
1.153 avankest 251: <h3 id="dependencies">Dependencies</h3>
1.33 avankest 252:
1.29 avankest 253: <p>This specification relies on several underlying specifications.</p>
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1.29 avankest 255: <dl>
1.248 avankest 256:
257:
1.29 avankest 258: <dt>DOM</dt>
1.33 avankest 259:
1.155 avankest 260: <dd><p>A <span title="conforming user agent">conforming user agent</span>
1.176 avankest 261: <em class="ct">must</em> support at least the subset of the functionality
1.182 avankest 262: defined in DOM Events and DOM Core that this specification relies upon,
263: such as various exceptions and <code>EventTarget</code>.
1.155 avankest 264: [<cite><span>DOM2Events</span></cite>]
265: [<cite><span>DOM3Core</span></cite>]</p></dd>
1.29 avankest 266:
1.250 avankest 267: <dt>HTML5</dt>
1.161 avankest 268:
269: <dd>
1.189 avankest 270: <p>A <span>conforming user agent</span> <em class="ct">must</em> support
1.250 avankest 271: at least the subset of the functionality defined in HTML5 that
1.197 avankest 272: this specification relies upon, such as the basics of the
273: <code>Window</code> object and serializing a <code>Document</code>
274: object. [<cite><span>HTML5</span></cite>]</p>
1.161 avankest 275:
276: <p class="note">The
277: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-Window-20060407/">Window Object
278: 1.0</a> draft is not referenced normatively as it appears to be no
1.250 avankest 279: longer maintained and HTML5 defines the <code>Window</code> object in
280: more detail. This specification already depends on HTML5 for other
281: reasons so there is not much additional overhead because of this.</p>
1.161 avankest 282:
1.29 avankest 283: <dt>HTTP</dt>
1.33 avankest 284:
1.248 avankest 285: <dd><p>A <span title="conforming user agent">conforming user agent</span>
286: <em class="ct">must</em> support some version of the HTTP protocol.
287: Requirements regarding HTTP are made throughout the specification.
288: [<cite><span>RFC2616</span></cite>]</p></dd>
1.189 avankest 289:
1.181 avankest 290: <dt>Web IDL</dt>
1.203 avankest 291:
1.248 avankest 292: <dd><p>A <span>conforming user agent</span> <em class="ct">must</em> also
293: be a conforming implementation of the IDL fragments in this
294: specification, as described in the Web IDL specification.
1.181 avankest 295: [<cite><span>WebIDL</span></cite>]
1.248 avankest 296:
297:
1.29 avankest 298: </dl>
1.12 avankest 299:
1.157 avankest 300:
1.153 avankest 301: <h3 id="terminology">Terminology</h3>
1.209 avankest 302:
1.233 avankest 303: <p><dfn id="dfn-obtain-unicode">convert a DOMString to a sequence of Unicode characters</dfn>
304: is defined by the Web IDL specification.
305: [<cite><span>WebIDL</span></cite>]</p>
1.248 avankest 306:
1.200 avankest 307: <p>The terms and algorithms
1.257 avankest 308: <dfn id="url-fragment"><code><fragment></code></dfn>,
309: <dfn id="url-scheme"><code><scheme></code></dfn>,
1.203 avankest 310: <dfn id="document-base-url">document base URL</dfn>,
1.244 avankest 311: <dfn id="document-character-encoding">document's character encoding</dfn>,
1.205 avankest 312: <dfn id="event-handler-attributes-0">event handler attributes</dfn>,
1.203 avankest 313: <dfn id="event-handler-event-type">event handler event type</dfn>,
314: <dfn id="fully-active">fully active</dfn>,
1.206 avankest 315: <dfn id="function"><code>Function</code></dfn>,
1.225 avankest 316: <dfn id="dom-innerhtml" title="dom-innerHTML"><code>innerHTML</code></dfn>,
1.200 avankest 317: <dfn id="origin">origin</dfn>,
1.232 avankest 318: <dfn id="preferred-mime-name">preferred MIME name</dfn>,
1.203 avankest 319: <dfn id="resolve-a-url">resolve a URL</dfn>,
320: <dfn id="same-origin">same origin</dfn>,
321: <dfn id="storage-mutex">storage mutex</dfn>,
322: <dfn id="task">task</dfn>,
323: <dfn id="task-source">task source</dfn>,
1.252 avankest 324: <dfn id="task-queues">task queues</dfn>,
1.203 avankest 325: <dfn id="url">URL</dfn>,
1.232 avankest 326: <dfn id="url-character-encoding">URL character encoding</dfn>,
327: <dfn id="queue-a-task">queue a task</dfn>, and
328: <dfn id="valid-mime-type">valid MIME type</dfn>
1.250 avankest 329: are defined by the HTML5 specification.
1.157 avankest 330: [<cite><span>HTML5</span></cite>]</p>
1.210 avankest 331:
1.203 avankest 332: <p>The term <dfn id="entity-body">entity body</dfn> is used as described
333: in RFC 2616. <dfn id="method-token">Method token</dfn> is used as
334: described in section 5.1.1 of RFC 2616. <dfn><code>field-name</code></dfn>
335: and <dfn><code>field-value</code></dfn> are used as described in section
336: 4.2 of RFC 2616. [<cite><span>RFC2616</span></cite>]</p>
1.218 avankest 337:
1.258 ! avankest 338: <p>To <dfn>deflate a DOMString into a byte sequence</dfn> means to create
! 339: a sequence of bytes such that the <var title="">n</var>th byte of the
! 340: sequence is equal to the low-order byte of the <var title="">n</var>th
! 341: code point in the original DOMString.</p>
! 342:
! 343: <p>To <dfn>inflate a byte sequence into a DOMString</dfn> means to create
! 344: a DOMString such that the <var title="">n</var>th code point has 0x00 as
! 345: the high-order byte and the <var title="">n</var>th byte of the byte
! 346: sequence as the low-order byte.</p>
1.256 avankest 347:
1.203 avankest 348: <p><dfn><code>userinfo</code></dfn> is used as described in section 3.2.1
349: of RFC 3986. [<cite><span>RFC3986</span></cite>]</p>
350:
351: <p>To <dfn id="dispatch-readystatechange-event">dispatch a
352: <code>readystatechange</code> event</dfn> means that an event with the
1.232 avankest 353: name <code>readystatechange</code>, which does not bubble and is not
354: cancelable, and which uses the <code>Event</code> interface, is to be
355: dispatched at the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object.</p>
1.80 avankest 356:
1.248 avankest 357:
358:
1.153 avankest 359: <h3 id="extensibility">Extensibility</h3>
1.12 avankest 360:
1.250 avankest 361: <p>User agents, Working Groups, and other interested parties are
362: <em>strongly encouraged</em> to discuss extensions on a relevant public
363: forum, preferably
364: <a href="mailto:public-webapps@w3.org">public-webapps@w3.org</a>. If this
365: is for some reason not possible prefix the extension in some way and start
366: the prefix with an uppercase letter. E.g. if company Foo wants to add a
367: private method <code>bar()</code> it could be named <code>FooBar()</code>
368: to prevent clashes with a potential future standardized
369: <code>bar()</code>.</p>
1.12 avankest 370:
1.153 avankest 371:
1.223 avankest 372: <h2>The <code title="">XMLHttpRequest</code> Interface</h2>
1.12 avankest 373:
1.58 avankest 374: <p>The <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object can be used by scripts to
1.22 avankest 375: programmatically connect to their originating server via HTTP.</p>
1.12 avankest 376:
1.228 avankest 377: <pre class="idl">[NoInterfaceObject]
378: interface <dfn id="xmlhttprequesteventtarget">XMLHttpRequestEventTarget</dfn> : EventTarget {
379: // for future use
380: };
381:
1.240 avankest 382: [<span title="dom-XMLHttpRequest">Constructor</span>]
1.228 avankest 383: interface <dfn id="xmlhttprequest">XMLHttpRequest</dfn> : <span>XMLHttpRequestEventTarget</span> {
1.206 avankest 384: // <a href="#event-handler-attributes">event handler attributes</a>
385: attribute <span>Function</span> <span>onreadystatechange</span>;
1.58 avankest 386:
1.205 avankest 387: // <a href="#states">states</a>
1.71 avankest 388: const unsigned short <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span> = 0;
1.134 avankest 389: const unsigned short <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> = 1;
1.123 avankest 390: const unsigned short <span title="HEADERS_RECEIVED state">HEADERS_RECEIVED</span> = 2;
1.86 avankest 391: const unsigned short <span title="LOADING state">LOADING</span> = 3;
1.117 avankest 392: const unsigned short <span title="DONE state">DONE</span> = 4;
1.70 avankest 393: readonly attribute unsigned short <span>readyState</span>;
1.58 avankest 394:
1.205 avankest 395: // <a href="#request">request</a>
1.226 avankest 396: void <span>open</span>(DOMString <var>method</var>, DOMString <var title="">url</var>);
397: void <span>open</span>(DOMString <var>method</var>, DOMString <var title="">url</var>, boolean <var>async</var>);
1.228 avankest 398: void <span>open</span>(DOMString <var>method</var>, DOMString <var title="">url</var>, boolean <var>async</var>, DOMString? <var>user</var>);
399: void <span>open</span>(DOMString <var>method</var>, DOMString <var title="">url</var>, boolean <var>async</var>, DOMString? <var>user</var>, DOMString? <var>password</var>);
1.226 avankest 400: void <span>setRequestHeader</span>(DOMString <var>header</var>, DOMString <var>value</var>);
1.70 avankest 401: void <span>send</span>();
1.226 avankest 402: void <span>send</span>(Document <var>data</var>);
1.228 avankest 403: void <span>send</span>([AllowAny] DOMString? <var>data</var>);
1.70 avankest 404: void <span>abort</span>();
1.58 avankest 405:
1.205 avankest 406: // <a href="#response">response</a>
1.203 avankest 407: readonly attribute unsigned short <span>status</span>;
408: readonly attribute DOMString <span>statusText</span>;
1.226 avankest 409: DOMString <span>getResponseHeader</span>(DOMString <var>header</var>);
1.70 avankest 410: DOMString <span>getAllResponseHeaders</span>();
411: readonly attribute DOMString <span>responseText</span>;
412: readonly attribute Document <span>responseXML</span>;
1.228 avankest 413: };</pre>
1.8 avankest 414:
1.235 avankest 415: <!-- XXX domintro boxes; HTML5-style -->
416:
1.124 avankest 417:
1.203 avankest 418: <h3>Origin and Base URL</h3>
419:
420: <p>Each <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object has an associated
421: <dfn id="xmlhttprequest-origin"><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> origin</dfn>
422: and an
423: <dfn id="xmlhttprequest-base-url"><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> base URL</dfn>.
424:
425: <p>This specification defines their values when the global object is
426: represented by the <code>Window</code> object. When the
1.246 avankest 427: <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object is used in other contexts their values
1.203 avankest 428: will have to be defined as appropriate for that context. That is
429: considered to be out of scope for this specification.</p>
430:
431: <hr>
432:
433: <p>In environments where the global object is represented by the
434: <code>Window</code> object the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object has an
435: associated
436: <dfn id="xmlhttprequest-document"><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></dfn>
437: which is the <code>Document</code> object associated with the
438: <code>Window</code> object for which the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code>
439: interface object was created.</p>
440:
441: <p class="note">The
442: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></span> is used to
443: determine the <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> origin</span> and
444: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> base URL</span> at a later stage.</p>
445:
446:
447: <h3>Task Sources</h3>
1.218 avankest 448:
1.251 avankest 449: <p>The <span>task source</span> used by this specification is the
450: <dfn><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> task source</dfn>.</p>
1.203 avankest 451:
452:
1.211 avankest 453: <h3 id="constructors">Constructors</h3>
1.203 avankest 454:
455: <p>When the
1.240 avankest 456: <dfn id="dom-xmlhttprequest" title="dom-XMLHttpRequest"><code title="">XMLHttpRequest()</code></dfn>
1.203 avankest 457: constructor is invoked, the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> return a
458: new <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object.</p>
459:
460:
1.205 avankest 461: <h3 id="event-handler-attributes">Event Handler Attributes</h3>
462:
1.248 avankest 463:
464:
1.205 avankest 465: <p>The following is the
466: <span title="event handler attributes">event handler attribute</span> (and
467: its corresponding <span>event handler event type</span>) that
468: <em class="ct">must</em> be supported as DOM attribute by the
469: <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object:</p>
470:
471: <table>
472: <thead>
473: <tr>
474: <th><span title="event handler attributes">event handler attribute</span>
475: <th><span>event handler event type</span>
476: <tbody>
477: <tr>
478: <td><dfn id="onreadystatechange"><code>onreadystatechange</code></dfn>
479: <td><code>readystatechange</code></td>
480: </table>
481:
482:
483: <h3 id="states">States</h3>
1.203 avankest 484:
485: <p>The <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object can be in several states. The
486: <dfn id="readystate"><code>readyState</code></dfn> attribute, on getting,
487: <em class="ct">must</em> return the current state, which
488: <em class="ct">must</em> be one of the following values:</p>
489:
490: <dl>
491: <dt><dfn id="unsent-state" title="UNSENT state"><code>UNSENT</code></dfn>
492: (numeric value 0)</dt>
493: <dd><p>The object has been constructed.</p></dd>
494:
495: <dt><dfn id="opened-state" title="OPENED state"><code>OPENED</code></dfn>
496: (numeric value 1)</dt>
497: <dd><p>The <code>open()</code> method has been successfully invoked.
498: During this state request headers can be set using
499: <code>setRequestHeader()</code> and the request can be made using the
500: <code>send()</code> method.</p></dd>
501:
502: <dt><dfn id="headers-received-state" title="HEADERS_RECEIVED state"><code>HEADERS_RECEIVED</code></dfn>
503: (numeric value 2)</dt>
1.257 avankest 504: <dd><p>All redirects (if any) have been followed and all HTTP headers of
505: the final response have been received. Several response members of the
506: object are now available.</p></dd>
1.203 avankest 507:
508: <dt><dfn id="loading-state" title="LOADING state"><code>LOADING</code></dfn>
509: (numeric value 3)</dt>
510: <dd><p>The <span>response entity body</span> is being received.</p></dd>
511:
512: <dt><dfn id="done-state" title="DONE state"><code>DONE</code></dfn>
513: (numeric value 4)</dt>
514: <dd><p>The data transfer has been completed or something went wrong
515: during the transfer (e.g. infinite redirects).</p></dd>
516: </dl>
517:
518: <p>The <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> state has an associated
519: <dfn id="send-flag"><code>send()</code> flag</dfn> that indicates whether
520: the <code>send()</code> method has been invoked. It can be either true
521: or false and has an initial value of false.</p>
522:
523: <p>The <span title="DONE state">DONE</span> state has an associated
524: <dfn id="error-flag">error flag</dfn> that indicates some type of network
525: error or abortion. It can be either true or false and has an initial value
526: of false.</p>
527:
528:
1.205 avankest 529: <h3 id="request">Request</h3>
1.203 avankest 530:
531: <p>The <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object holds the following request
532: metadata variables:</p>
533:
1.204 avankest 534: <dl>
535: <dt>The <dfn>asynchronous flag</dfn></dt>
536: <dd>A flag that is either true or false that indicates whether the
537: request is done asynchronously.</dd>
538:
539: <dt>The <dfn>request method</dfn></dt>
540: <dd>The method used in the request.</dd>
541:
542: <dt>The <dfn>request URL</dfn></dt>
543: <dd>The <span>URL</span> used in the request.</dd>
1.218 avankest 544:
1.204 avankest 545: <dt>The <dfn>request username</dfn></dt>
546: <dd>The username used in the request or null if there is no
547: username.</dd>
1.218 avankest 548:
1.204 avankest 549: <dt>The <dfn>request password</dfn></dt>
550: <dd>The password used in the request or null if there is no
551: password.</dd>
1.218 avankest 552:
1.204 avankest 553: <dt>The <dfn id="author-request-headers">author request headers</dfn></dt>
554: <dd>A list consisting of HTTP header name/value pairs to be used in the
555: request.</p>
1.203 avankest 556:
1.204 avankest 557: <dt>The <dfn>request entity body</dfn></dt>
1.218 avankest 558: <dd>The <span>entity body</span> used in the request.</dd>
1.248 avankest 559:
560:
1.204 avankest 561: </dl>
1.203 avankest 562:
1.248 avankest 563:
564:
1.203 avankest 565:
566: <h4>The <code title="">open()</code> method</h4>
1.88 avankest 567:
1.203 avankest 568: <p>When the <dfn id="open" title="open"><code>open(<var>method</var>,
569: <var title="">url</var>, <var>async</var>, <var>user</var>,
570: <var>password</var>)</code></dfn> method is invoked, the user agent
1.217 avankest 571: <em class="ct">must</em> run these steps (unless otherwise indicated):</p>
1.90 avankest 572:
1.88 avankest 573: <ol>
1.203 avankest 574: <li>
575: <p>If the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object has an associated
576: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></span> run
577: these substeps:</p>
1.90 avankest 578:
1.203 avankest 579: <ol>
580: <li><p>If the
581: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></span> is not
582: <span>fully active</span> raise an <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code>
583: exception and terminate the overall set of steps.</p></li>
584:
585: <li><p>Let <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> base URL</span> be the
586: <span>document base URL</span> of the
587: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></span>.</p></li>
588:
589: <li><p>Let <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> origin</span> be the
590: <span>origin</span> of the
591: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> <code>Document</code></span>.</p></li>
592: </ol>
593: </li>
1.90 avankest 594:
1.256 avankest 595: <li><p>If any code point in <var>method</var> is higher than
596: U+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS or after
597: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
598: <var>method</var> it does not match the
1.210 avankest 599: <span>Method token</span> production raise a <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code>
1.256 avankest 600: exception and terminate these steps. Otherwise let <var>method</var> be
601: the result of
602: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
603: <var>method</var>.</p></li> <!-- This sounds lame, but it works. -->
1.118 avankest 604:
1.115 avankest 605: <li>
1.256 avankest 606: <p>If <var>method</var> is a case-insensitive match for
1.203 avankest 607: <code>CONNECT</code>, <code>DELETE</code>, <code>GET</code>,
608: <code>HEAD</code>, <code>OPTIONS</code>, <code>POST</code>,
609: <code>PUT</code>, <code>TRACE</code>, or <code>TRACK</code>
1.256 avankest 610: subtract 0x20 from each byte in the range 0x61 (ASCII a) to
611: 0x7A (ASCII z).</p>
1.118 avankest 612:
1.203 avankest 613: <p class="note">If it does not match any of the above, it is passed
614: through <em>literally</em>, including in the final request.</p>
1.115 avankest 615: </li>
1.203 avankest 616: <!-- WebKit (and supposedly Gecko) also uppercase: COPY, INDEX, LOCK,
617: M-POST, MKCOL, MOVE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, and UNLOCK. -->
1.118 avankest 618:
1.111 avankest 619: <li>
1.256 avankest 620: <p>If <var>method</var> is a case-sensitive match for
1.209 avankest 621: <code>CONNECT</code>, <code>TRACE</code>, or <code>TRACK</code> the
622: user agent <em class="ct">should</em> raise a <code>SECURITY_ERR</code>
623: exception and terminate these steps.</p>
1.117 avankest 624:
1.203 avankest 625: <p class="note">Allowing these methods poses a security risk.
626: [<cite><span>HTTPVERBSEC</span></cite>]</p>
1.111 avankest 627: </li>
628:
1.203 avankest 629: <li><p>Let <var title="">url</var> be a <span>URL</span>.</p></li>
630:
1.209 avankest 631: <li><p>Let <span>URL character encoding</span> of <var title="">url</var>
632: be UTF-8.</p></li>
1.113 avankest 633:
1.255 avankest 634: <li><p><span title="Resolve a URL">Resolve</span> <var title="">url</var>
1.203 avankest 635: relative to the <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> base URL</span>.
636: If the algorithm returns an error raise a <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code>
637: exception and terminate these steps.</p></li>
638:
639: <!-- Presto and Gecko override the encoding. WebKit does not. Trident
640: does not support non-ASCII URLs. This matters for the <query> component,
641: see HTML5. -->
642:
643: <li><p>Drop <code><fragment></code> from <var title="">url</var>.</p></li>
644:
645: <li><p>If <var title="">url</var> contains an unsupported <code><scheme></code>
646: raise a <code>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</code> and terminate these
647: steps.</p></li>
648:
649: <li><p>If the <code>"user:password"</code> format in the
650: <code>userinfo</code> production is not supported for the relevant scheme
651: and <var title="">url</var> contains this format raise a
652: <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code> and terminate these steps.</p></li>
653:
654: <li><p>If <var title="">url</var> contains the <code>"user:password"</code>
655: format let <var>temp user</var> be the user part and
656: <var>temp password</var> be the password part.</p></li>
657:
658: <li><p>If <var title="">url</var> just contains the <code>"user"</code>
659: format let <var>temp user</var> be the user part.</p></li>
660:
1.248 avankest 661:
1.203 avankest 662: <li><p>If the <span>origin</span> of <var title="">url</var> is not
663: <span>same origin</span> with the
664: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> origin</span> the user agent
665: <em class="ct">should</em> raise a <code>SECURITY_ERR</code> exception
666: and terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.248 avankest 667:
668:
1.203 avankest 669:
1.211 avankest 670: <li><p>Let <var>async</var> be the value of the <var>async</var> argument
671: or <code>true</code> if it was omitted.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 672:
673: <li>
674: <p>If the <var>user</var> argument was not omitted follow these sub
675: steps:</p>
1.90 avankest 676:
1.203 avankest 677: <ol>
678: <li><p>If the syntax of <var>user</var> does not match the syntax
679: specified by the relevant authentication scheme, raise a
680: <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code> exception and terminate the overall set of
681: steps.</p></li>
1.163 avankest 682:
1.239 avankest 683: <li><p>If <var>user</var> is null let <var>temp user</var>
1.203 avankest 684: be null.</p></li>
1.90 avankest 685:
1.203 avankest 686: <li><p>Otherwise let <var>temp user</var> be <var>user</var>.</p></li>
687: </ol>
1.88 avankest 688:
1.203 avankest 689: <p class="note">These steps override anything that may have been set by
690: the <var title="">url</var> argument.</p>
691: </li>
1.88 avankest 692:
1.128 avankest 693: <li>
1.203 avankest 694: <p>If the <var>password</var> argument was not omitted follow these sub
695: steps:</p>
696:
697: <ol>
698: <li><p>If the syntax of <var>password</var> does not match the syntax
699: specified by the relevant authentication scheme, raise a
700: <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code> exception and terminate the overall set of
701: steps.</p></li>
1.167 avankest 702:
1.239 avankest 703: <li><p>If <var>password</var> is null let
1.203 avankest 704: <var>temp password</var> be null.</p></li>
705:
706: <li><p>Otherwise let <var>temp password</var> be
707: <var>password</var>.</p></li>
708: </ol>
709:
710: <p class="note">These steps override anything that may have been set by
711: the <var title="">url</var> argument.</p>
1.128 avankest 712: </li>
1.88 avankest 713:
1.203 avankest 714: <li><p><span title="abort send()">Abort the <code>send()</code> algorithm</span>.</p></li>
715:
716: <li><p>The user agent <em class="ct">should</em> cancel any network
717: activity for which the object is responsible.</p></li>
718: <!-- we can hardly require it... -->
719:
1.252 avankest 720: <li><p>If there are any <span title="task">tasks</span> from the object's
721: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> task source</span> in one of the
722: <span>task queues</span>, then remove those tasks.</p></li>
723:
1.203 avankest 724: <li>
725: <p>Set variables associated with the object as follows:</p>
726:
727: <ul>
728: <li><p>Set the <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> to false.</p></li>
729:
730: <li><p>Set <span>response entity body</span> to null.</p></li>
731:
732: <li><p>Empty the list of <span>author request headers</span>.</p>
733:
734: <li><p>Set the <span>request method</span> to <var>method</var>.</p></li>
735:
736: <li><p>Set the <span>request URL</span> to <var title="">url</var>.</p></li>
1.58 avankest 737:
1.203 avankest 738: <li><p>Set the <span>request username</span> to <var>temp user</var>.</p></li>
1.12 avankest 739:
1.203 avankest 740: <li><p>Set the <span>request password</span> to <var>temp password</var>.</p></li>
1.12 avankest 741:
1.203 avankest 742: <li><p>Set the <span>asynchronous flag</span> to true if <var>async</var> is
743: <code>true</code>. Otherwise set it to false.</p></li>
744: </ul>
745: </li>
1.58 avankest 746:
1.203 avankest 747: <li><p>Switch the the state to
748: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span>.</p></li>
1.58 avankest 749:
1.203 avankest 750: <li><p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p></li>
751: </ol>
1.248 avankest 752:
753:
1.203 avankest 754: <p class="note">A future version or extension of this specification will
755: define a way of doing cross-origin requests.</p>
1.248 avankest 756:
1.58 avankest 757:
1.14 avankest 758:
1.203 avankest 759: <h4>The <code title="">setRequestHeader()</code> method</h4>
1.12 avankest 760:
1.235 avankest 761: <!-- XXX domintro authors
1.203 avankest 762: The <code>setRequestHeader()</code> method can be used to set new request
1.184 avankest 763: headers and append to request headers already in the list.</p>
1.203 avankest 764: -->
1.45 avankest 765:
1.203 avankest 766: <p>As indicated in the algorithm below certain headers cannot be set and
767: are left up to the user agent. In addition there are certain other headers
768: the user agent will take control of if they are not set by the author as
769: indicated at the end of the <code>send()</code> method section.</p>
770:
771: <p class="note">The <code>setRequestHeader()</code> method appends a
772: value if the HTTP header given as argument is already part of the
773: <span>author request headers</span> list.</p>
774:
1.248 avankest 775:
776:
1.203 avankest 777: <p>When the
778: <dfn id="setrequestheader" title="setrequestheader"><code>setRequestHeader(<var>header</var>,
779: <var>value</var>)</code></dfn> method is invoked, the user agent
1.217 avankest 780: <em class="ct">must</em> run these steps (unless otherwise indicated):</p>
1.14 avankest 781:
1.203 avankest 782: <ol>
783: <li><p>If the state is not <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> raise
784: an <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code> exception and terminate these
785: steps.</p></li>
786:
787: <li><p>If the <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> is true raise an
788: <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code> exception and terminate these
789: steps.</p></li>
790:
1.256 avankest 791: <li><p>If any code point in <var>header</var> is higher than
792: U+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS or after
793: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
794: <var>header</var> it does not match the
795: <span>field-name</span> production raise a <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code>
796: exception and terminate these steps. Otherwise let <var>header</var> be
797: the result of
798: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
799: <var>header</var>.</p></li> <!-- This sounds lame, but it works. -->
1.203 avankest 800:
801: <li>
1.256 avankest 802: <p>If any code point in <var>value</var> is higher than
803: U+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS or after
804: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
805: <var>value</var> it does not match the
806: <span>field-value</span> production raise a <code>SYNTAX_ERR</code>
807: exception and terminate these steps. Otherwise let <var>value</var> be
808: the result of
809: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
810: <var>value</var>.</p> <!-- This sounds lame, but it works. -->
1.203 avankest 811:
812: <p class="note">The empty string is legal and represents the empty
813: header value.</p>
814: </li>
815:
816: <li>
817: <p>For security reasons, these steps <em class="ct">should</em> be
1.256 avankest 818: terminated if <var>header</var> is a case-insensitive match for one of
819: the following headers:</p>
1.203 avankest 820:
821: <ul>
822: <li><code>Accept-Charset</code></li>
823: <li><code>Accept-Encoding</code></li>
824: <li><code>Connection</code></li>
825: <li><code>Content-Length</code></li>
826: <li><code>Cookie</code></li>
827: <li><code>Cookie2</code></li>
828: <li><code>Content-Transfer-Encoding</code></li>
829: <li><code>Date</code></li>
830: <li><code>Expect</code></li>
831: <li><code>Host</code></li>
832: <li><code>Keep-Alive</code></li>
833: <li><code>Referer</code></li>
834: <li><code>TE</code></li>
835: <li><code>Trailer</code></li>
836: <li><code>Transfer-Encoding</code></li>
837: <li><code>Upgrade</code></li>
838: <li><code>User-Agent</code></li>
839: <li><code>Via</code></li>
840: </ul>
1.96 avankest 841:
1.256 avankest 842: <p>… or if the start of <var>header</var> is a case-insensitive
843: match for <code>Proxy-</code> or <code>Sec-</code> (including when
844: <var>header</var> is just <code>Proxy-</code> or <code>Sec-</code>).</p>
1.203 avankest 845:
846: <p class="note">The above headers are not allowed to be set as they are
847: better controlled by the user agent as it knows best what value they
848: should have. Header names starting with <code>Sec-</code> are not
849: allowed to be set to allow new headers to be minted in the future that
850: are guaranteed not to come from <code>XMLHttpRequest</code>. (Older
851: clients would however still be vulnerable as they allow such headers to
852: be set.)</p>
853: </li>
1.14 avankest 854:
1.203 avankest 855: <li><p>If <var>header</var> is not in the
856: <span>author request headers</span> list append <var>header</var> with
857: its associated <var>value</var> to the list and terminate these
858: steps.</p></li>
859:
860: <li><p>If <var>header</var> is in the <span>author request headers</span>
861: list either use multiple headers, combine the values or use a combination
862: of those (section 4.2, RFC 2616).
863: [<cite><span>RFC2616</span></cite>]</p></li>
864: <!-- XXX it seems UAs always combine the values -->
865: </ol>
1.45 avankest 866:
1.203 avankest 867: <p class="note">See also the <code>send()</code> method regarding user
868: agent header handling for caching, authentication, proxies, and
869: cookies.</p>
1.14 avankest 870:
1.203 avankest 871: <div class="example">
872: <pre><code>// The following script:
1.14 avankest 873: var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
874: client.open('GET', 'demo.cgi');
875: client.setRequestHeader('X-Test', 'one');
876: client.setRequestHeader('X-Test', 'two');
877: client.send();
878:
879: // ...would result in the following header being sent:
880: ...
881: X-Test: one, two
1.58 avankest 882: ...</code></pre>
1.203 avankest 883: </div>
1.255 avankest 884:
1.248 avankest 885:
1.218 avankest 886:
1.203 avankest 887:
888: <h4>The <code title="">send()</code> method</h4>
1.12 avankest 889:
1.235 avankest 890: <!-- XXX domintro
1.203 avankest 891: <p>The <code>send()</code> method initiates the request and its optional
1.204 avankest 892: argument provides the <span>request entity body</span>.</p>
1.235 avankest 893: -->
1.203 avankest 894:
895: <p>When the
896: <dfn id="send" title="send"><code>send(<var>data</var>)</code></dfn>
897: method is invoked, the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> run the
898: following steps (unless otherwise noted). This algorithm gets aborted when
899: the <code>open()</code> or <code>abort()</code> method is invoked. When
900: the
901: <dfn title="abort send()" id="abort-send-algorithm"><code>send()</code> algorithm is aborted</dfn>
902: the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> terminate the algorithm after
903: finishing the step it is on.</p>
904:
905: <p class="note">The <code title="">send()</code> algorithm can only be
906: aborted when the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true and only after the
907: method call has returned.</p>
1.181 avankest 908:
1.203 avankest 909: <ol>
910: <li><p>If the state is not <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> raise
911: an <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code> exception and terminate these
912: steps.</p></li>
913:
914: <li><p>If the <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> is true raise an
915: <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code> exception and terminate these
916: steps.</p></li>
1.58 avankest 917:
1.203 avankest 918: <li>
919: <p>If the <span>request method</var> is <code>GET</code> or
1.239 avankest 920: <code>HEAD</code> act as if <var>data</var> is null.</p>
1.232 avankest 921:
922: <p>If the <var>data</var> argument has been omitted or is
1.239 avankest 923: null, do not include a <span>request entity body</span>
1.232 avankest 924: and go to the next step.</p>
1.248 avankest 925:
926: <p>Otherwise, let <var>encoding</var> be null, <var>mime type</var> be
927: null, and then follow these rules:</p>
1.203 avankest 928:
929: <dl class="switch">
1.248 avankest 930:
931:
932: <dt>If <var>data</var> is a <code>Document</code>
1.203 avankest 933:
934: <dd>
1.232 avankest 935: <p>Let <var>encoding</var> be the <span>preferred MIME name</span> of
936: the
937: <span title="document's character encoding">character encoding</span>
938: of <var>data</var>. If <var>encoding</var> is UTF-16 change it to
939: UTF-8.</p>
940:
1.248 avankest 941: <p>Let <var>mime type</var> be "<code>application/xml;charset=</code>"
942: followed by <var>encoding</var>.</p>
1.232 avankest 943:
944: <p>Let the <span>request entity body</span> be the result of getting
945: the <code title="dom-innerHTML">innerHTML</code> attribute on
1.233 avankest 946: <var>data</var>
947: <span title="convert a DOMString to a sequence of Unicode characters">converted to Unicode</span>
948: and encoded as <var>encoding</var>. Re-raise any exception this
949: raises.</p>
1.218 avankest 950:
1.233 avankest 951: <p class="note">In particular, if the document cannot be serialized an
1.217 avankest 952: <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code> exception is raised.</p>
953:
1.203 avankest 954: <p class="note">Subsequent changes to the <code>Document</code> have
955: no effect on what is submitted.</p>
956: </dd>
1.237 avankest 957:
1.248 avankest 958: <dt>If <var>data</var> is a <code>DOMString</code></dt>
1.237 avankest 959:
1.248 avankest 960: <dd>
961: <p>Let <var>encoding</var> be UTF-8.</p>
962:
963: <p>Let <var>mime type</var> be "<code>text/plain;charset=UTF-8</code>".</p>
964:
965: <p>Let the <span>request entity body</span> be <var>data</var>
966: <span title="convert a DOMString to a sequence of Unicode characters">converted to Unicode</span>
967: and encoded as UTF-8.</p>
968: </dd>
969:
970:
1.203 avankest 971: </dl>
1.58 avankest 972:
1.232 avankest 973: <p>If a <code>Content-Type</code> header is set using
1.248 avankest 974: <code>setRequestHeader()</code> whose value is a
975: <span>valid MIME type</span> and has a <code>charset</code>
1.256 avankest 976: parameter whose value is not a case-insensitive match for
977: <var>encoding</var>, and <var>encoding</var> is not null, set all the
978: <code>charset</code> parameters of the <code>Content-Type</code> header
979: to <var>encoding</var>.</p>
1.232 avankest 980:
981: <p>If no <code>Content-Type</code> header has been set using
1.248 avankest 982: <code>setRequestHeader()</code> and <var>mime type</var> is not null set
983: a <code>Content-Type</code> request header with as value
984: <var>mime type</var>.</p>
1.236 avankest 985:
986: <!-- reminder: if we ever change this to always include charset it has
987: to be included as the first parameter for compatibility reasons -->
1.203 avankest 988: </li>
1.202 avankest 989:
1.203 avankest 990: <li><p>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is false release the
991: <span>storage mutex</span>.</p></li>
1.103 avankest 992:
1.248 avankest 993:
994:
1.203 avankest 995: <li><p>Set the <span>error flag</span> to false.</p></li>
1.218 avankest 996:
1.248 avankest 997:
998:
1.211 avankest 999: <li>
1000: <p>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true run these substeps:</p>
1.218 avankest 1001:
1.211 avankest 1002: <ol>
1.217 avankest 1003: <li><p>Set the <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> to true.</p></li>
1004:
1.211 avankest 1005: <li>
1006: <p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p>
1.145 avankest 1007:
1.211 avankest 1008: <p class="note">The state does not change. The event is dispatched for
1009: historical reasons.</p>
1010: </li>
1011:
1.248 avankest 1012:
1013:
1.211 avankest 1014: <li><p>Return the <code>send()</code> method call, but continue running
1015: the steps in this algorithm.</p></li>
1016: </ol>
1017: </li>
1.218 avankest 1018:
1.203 avankest 1019: <li>
1.248 avankest 1020:
1.211 avankest 1021:
1.248 avankest 1022: <p>Make a request to <span>request URL</span>, using HTTP method
1023: <span>request method</span>, user <span>request username</span> (if
1024: non-null) and password <span>request password</span> (if non-null),
1025: taking into account the <span>request entity body</span>, list of
1026: <span>author request headers</span> and the rules listed at the end of
1027: this section.</p>
1028:
1029: <p>If there are cookies to be set, run the
1030: <span>cookie steps</span>.</p>
1031:
1032: <dl class="switch">
1033: <dt>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is false</dt>
1034: <dd>
1035: <p>While making the request also follow the
1036: <span>same-origin request event rules</span>.</p>
1037:
1038: <!--
1039: This cannot involve any task queue whatsoever because that would
1040: mean other tasks on the task queue might get processed as well
1041: which is counter to the whole idea of doing things synchronous.
1042: -->
1043:
1044: <p class="note">The <code>send()</code> method call will now be
1045: returned by virtue of this algorithm ending.</p>
1046: </dd>
1047:
1048: <dt>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true</dt>
1049: <dd>
1050: <p><span>Make progress notifications</span>.</p>
1051:
1052: <p><span>Make upload progress notifications</span>.</p>
1053:
1054: <p>While processing the request, as data becomes available and when
1055: the user interferes with the request,
1.255 avankest 1056: <span title="queue a task">queue tasks</span> to update the
1057: <span>response entity body</span> and follow the
1.254 avankest 1058: <span>same-origin request event rules</span>.</p>
1.248 avankest 1059: </dd>
1060: </dl>
1061:
1.203 avankest 1062: </li>
1063: </ol>
1.60 avankest 1064:
1.203 avankest 1065: <hr>
1066:
1.227 avankest 1067: <p>If the user agent allows the end user to configure a proxy it
1.248 avankest 1068: <em class="ct">should</em> modify the request appropriately; i.e., connect
1069: to the proxy host instead of the origin server, modify the
1070: <code>Request-Line</code> and send <code>Proxy-Authorization</code>
1071: headers as specified.</p>
1.212 avankest 1072:
1.218 avankest 1073: <p>If the user agent supports HTTP Authentication and
1074: <code>Authorization</code> is not in the list of
1075: <span>author request headers</span>, it <em class="ct">should</em>
1076: consider requests originating from the <code>XMLHttpRequest</code> object
1077: to be part of the protection space that includes the accessed URIs and
1078: send <code>Authorization</code> headers and handle
1079: <code>401 Unauthorized</code> requests appropriately. If authentication
1.247 avankest 1080: fails, and <span>request username</span> and <span>request password</span>
1.227 avankest 1081: are both null, user agents <em class="ct">should</em> prompt the end user
1082: for credentials. If authentication fails, and
1083: <span>request username</span> and <span>request password</span> are
1084: provided, user agents <em class="ct">must not</em> prompt the end user for
1085: credentials. [<cite><span>RFC2617</span></cite>]</p>
1.212 avankest 1086:
1.227 avankest 1087: <p class="note">End users are not prompted if credentials are provided
1.212 avankest 1088: through the <code>open()</code> API so that authors can implement their
1089: own user interface.</p>
1090:
1091: <p>If the user agent supports HTTP State Management it
1092: <em class="ct">should</em> persist, discard and send cookies (as received
1093: in the <code>Set-Cookie</code> and <code>Set-Cookie2</code> response
1094: headers, and sent in the <code>Cookie</code> header) as applicable.
1095: [<cite><span>COOKIES</span></cite>]</p>
1096:
1097: <p>If the user agent implements a HTTP cache it <em class="ct">should</em>
1.248 avankest 1098: respect <code>Cache-Control</code> request headers set by the
1099: <code>setRequestHeader()</code> (e.g., <code>Cache-Control:
1100: no-cache</code> bypasses the cache). It <em class="ct">must not</em> send
1.212 avankest 1101: <code>Cache-Control</code> or <code>Pragma</code> request headers
1.227 avankest 1102: automatically unless the end user explicitly requests such behavior
1.212 avankest 1103: (e.g. by (force-)reloading the page).</p>
1104:
1105: <p>For <code>304 Not Modified</code> responses that are a result of a
1106: user agent generated conditional request the user agent
1107: <em class="ct">must</em> act as if the server gave a <code>200 OK</code>
1108: response with the appropriate content. The user agent
1109: <em class="ct">must</em> allow <code>setRequestHeader()</code> to
1.248 avankest 1110: override automatic cache validation by setting request headers (e.g.
1111: <code>If-None-Match</code> or <code>If-Modified-Since</code>), in which
1.212 avankest 1112: case <code>304 Not Modified</code> responses <em class="ct">must</em> be
1113: passed through. [<cite><span>RFC2616</span></cite>]</p>
1114:
1115: <p>If the user agent implements server-driven content-negotiation
1116: it <em class="ct">should</em> set <code>Accept-Encoding</code> and
1.231 avankest 1117: <code>Accept-Charset</code> headers as appropriate. For
1118: <code>Accept</code> and <code>Accept-Language</code> the user agent
1119: <em class="ct">must</em> follow these constraints:</p>
1120:
1121: <ul>
1122: <li><p>Both headers <em class="ct">must not</em> be modified if they are
1123: already set through <code>setRequestHeader()</code>.</p></li>
1.255 avankest 1124:
1.231 avankest 1125: <li><p>If not set through <code>setRequestHeader()</code>
1.255 avankest 1126: <code>Accept-Language</code> <em class="ct">should</em> be set as
1.231 avankest 1127: appropriate.</p></li>
1128:
1129: <li><p>If not set through <code>setRequestHeader()</code>
1130: <code>Accept</code> <em class="ct">must</em> be set with as value
1131: <code>*/*</code>.</p></li>
1132: </ul>
1133:
1134: <p>Responses <em class="ct">must</em> have the content-encodings
1135: automatically decoded. [<cite><span>RFC2616</span></cite>]</p>
1.212 avankest 1136:
1137: <p>Besides the <span>author request headers</span> user agents
1138: <em class="ct">should not</em> include additional request headers other
1.248 avankest 1139: than those mentioned above or other than those authors are not allowed to
1140: set using <code>setRequestHeader()</code>. This ensures that authors have
1141: a reasonably predictable API.</p>
1.218 avankest 1142:
1.212 avankest 1143:
1144: <h4>Infrastructure for the <code title="">send()</code> method</h4>
1.216 avankest 1145:
1146: <p>The <dfn>cookie steps</dfn> are as follows:</p>
1.218 avankest 1147:
1.216 avankest 1148: <ol>
1149: <li><p>Wait until ownership of the <span>storage mutex</span> can be
1150: taken.</p></li>
1.218 avankest 1151:
1.216 avankest 1152: <li><p>Take ownership of the <span>storage mutex</span>.</p></li>
1.218 avankest 1153:
1.216 avankest 1154: <li><p>Update the cookies. [<cite><span>COOKIES</span></cite>]</p></li>
1155:
1156: <li><p>Release the <span>storage mutex</span> so that it is once again
1157: free.</p></li>
1158: </ol>
1.218 avankest 1159:
1.216 avankest 1160: <hr>
1.218 avankest 1161:
1.219 avankest 1162: <p>The <dfn>same-origin request event rules</dfn> are as follows:</p>
1.118 avankest 1163:
1.203 avankest 1164: <dl class="switch">
1165: <dt>If the response is an HTTP redirect</dt>
1166: <dd>
1.248 avankest 1167:
1.257 avankest 1168: <p>If the <span>origin</span> of the <span>URL</span> conveyed by the
1169: <code title="http-location">Location</code> header is
1170: <span>same origin</span> with the
1171: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> origin</span> and the redirect does
1172: not violate infinite loop precautions, transparently follow the redirect
1173: while observing the <span>same-origin request event rules</span>.</p>
1.248 avankest 1174:
1175: <p>Otherwise, this is a <span>network error</span>.</p>
1176:
1177:
1.203 avankest 1178:
1179: <p class="note">HTTP places requirements on the user agent regarding the
1.204 avankest 1180: preservation of the <span>request method</span> and
1.248 avankest 1181: <span>request entity body</span> during redirects, and also requires end
1182: users to be notified of certain kinds of automatic redirections.</p>
1.203 avankest 1183: <!-- XXX HTTP needs fixing here -->
1.213 avankest 1184: </dd>
1.121 avankest 1185:
1.227 avankest 1186: <dt>If the end user cancels the download</dt>
1.213 avankest 1187: <dd><p>This is an <span>abort error</span>.</p></dd>
1.60 avankest 1188:
1.214 avankest 1189: <dt>In case of network errors</dt>
1.213 avankest 1190: <dd>
1191: <p>In case of DNS errors, TLS negotiation failure, or other type of
1192: network errors, this is a <span>network error</span>. Do not request any
1.227 avankest 1193: kind of end user interaction.</p>
1.121 avankest 1194:
1.213 avankest 1195: <p class="note">This does not include HTTP responses that indicate
1196: some type of error, such as HTTP status code 410.</p>
1197: </dd>
1.60 avankest 1198:
1.248 avankest 1199:
1200:
1.213 avankest 1201: <dt>Once all HTTP headers have been received and the
1.257 avankest 1202: <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true (and this is not an HTTP
1203: redirect)</dt>
1.213 avankest 1204: <dd><p><span>Switch to the HEADERS_RECEIVED state</span>.</p></dd>
1.186 avankest 1205:
1.220 avankest 1206: <dt>Once the first byte (or more) of the
1207: <span>response entity body</span> has been received and the
1208: <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true</dt>
1209: <dt>If there is no <span>response entity body</span> and the
1.213 avankest 1210: <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true</dt>
1.215 avankest 1211: <dd><p><span>Switch to the LOADING state</span>.</p></dd>
1.220 avankest 1212:
1213: <dt>Once the whole <span>response entity body</span> has been
1214: received</dt>
1.224 avankest 1215: <dt>If there is no <span>response entity body</span> and the
1216: <span>asynchronous flag</span> is false or the state is
1.221 avankest 1217: <span title="LOADING state">LOADING</span></dt>
1.220 avankest 1218: <dd><p><span>Switch to the DONE state</span>.</p></dd>
1.213 avankest 1219: </dl>
1.218 avankest 1220:
1.248 avankest 1221:
1222:
1.213 avankest 1223: <hr>
1.218 avankest 1224:
1.241 avankest 1225: <p>When something is said to be a <dfn>network error</dfn> run the
1226: <span>request error</span> steps for exception
1227: <code>NETWORK_ERR</code>.</p>
1228:
1229: <p>When something is said to be an <dfn>abort error</dfn> run the
1230: <span>request error</span> steps for exception
1231: <code>ABORT_ERR</code>.</p>
1.60 avankest 1232:
1.248 avankest 1233:
1234:
1.242 avankest 1235: <p>When something is said to be a <dfn>request error</dfn> for
1.248 avankest 1236: exception <var>exception</var> run these
1237: steps:</p>
1.12 avankest 1238:
1.213 avankest 1239: <ol>
1.254 avankest 1240: <li><p>The user agent <em class="ct">should</em> cancel any network
1241: activity for which the object is responsible.</p></li>
1242:
1243: <li><p>If there are any <span title="task">tasks</span> from the object's
1244: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> task source</span> in one of the
1245: <span>task queues</span>, then remove those tasks.</p></li>
1.250 avankest 1246:
1.213 avankest 1247: <li><p>Set the <span>response entity body</span> to null.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1248:
1.254 avankest 1249: <li><p>Empty the list of <span>author request headers</span>.</p></li>
1250:
1.213 avankest 1251: <li><p>Set the the <span>error flag</span> to true.</p></li>
1.12 avankest 1252:
1.213 avankest 1253: <li><p>Switch the state to <span title="DONE state">DONE</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1254:
1.241 avankest 1255: <li><p>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is false raise an
1256: <var>exception</var> exception and terminate the overall set of
1.213 avankest 1257: steps.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1258:
1.248 avankest 1259: <li>
1.249 avankest 1260: <p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p>
1.248 avankest 1261:
1262: <p class="note">At this point it is clear that the
1263: <span>asynchronous flag</span> is true.</p>
1264: </li>
1265:
1266:
1.203 avankest 1267:
1.248 avankest 1268: <li><p>Terminate the overall algorithm.</p></li>
1.213 avankest 1269: </ol>
1.203 avankest 1270:
1.248 avankest 1271:
1272: <p class="note">A future version of this specification will dispatch an
1273: <code>error</code>/<code>abort</code> event here as well. (Depending on
1274: the type of error.)</p>
1275:
1.203 avankest 1276:
1.213 avankest 1277: <hr>
1.203 avankest 1278:
1.213 avankest 1279: <p>When it is said to
1280: <dfn id="switch-headers-received">switch to the HEADERS_RECEIVED state</dfn>
1281: run these steps:</p>
1.203 avankest 1282:
1.213 avankest 1283: <ol>
1284: <li><p>Switch the state to <span title="HEADERS_RECEIVED state">HEADERS_RECEIVED</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1285:
1.249 avankest 1286: <li><p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p></li>
1.213 avankest 1287: </ol>
1.218 avankest 1288:
1.213 avankest 1289: <p>When it is said to
1290: <dfn id="switch-loading">switch to the LOADING state</dfn> run these
1291: steps:</p>
1.218 avankest 1292:
1.213 avankest 1293: <ol>
1294: <li><p>Switch the state to <span title="LOADING state">LOADING</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1295:
1.249 avankest 1296: <li><p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p></li>
1.213 avankest 1297: </ol>
1.218 avankest 1298:
1.216 avankest 1299: <p>When it is said to
1300: <dfn id="switch-done">switch to the DONE state</dfn> run these steps:</p>
1.218 avankest 1301:
1.216 avankest 1302: <ol>
1.255 avankest 1303: <li><p>If the <span>asynchronous flag</span> is false update the
1304: <span>response entity body</span>.</p></li>
1305:
1.216 avankest 1306: <li><p>Switch the state to <span title="DONE state">DONE</span>.</p></li>
1307:
1.248 avankest 1308: <li><p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p></li>
1309:
1.220 avankest 1310:
1.216 avankest 1311: </ol>
1.218 avankest 1312:
1.248 avankest 1313:
1314:
1.203 avankest 1315:
1316: <h4>The <code title="">abort()</code> method</h4>
1317:
1318: <p>When the <dfn id="abort"><code>abort()</code></dfn> method is invoked,
1.217 avankest 1319: the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> run these steps (unless otherwise
1320: noted):</p>
1.12 avankest 1321:
1.203 avankest 1322: <ol>
1323: <li><p><span title="abort send()">Abort the <code>send()</code> algorithm</span>.</p></li>
1324:
1325: <li><p>The user agent <em class="ct">should</em> cancel any network
1326: activity for which the object is responsible.</p></li>
1.252 avankest 1327:
1328: <li><p>If there are any <span title="task">tasks</span> from the object's
1329: <span><code>XMLHttpRequest</code> task source</span> in one of the
1330: <span>task queues</span>, then remove those tasks.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1331:
1332: <li><p>Set the <span>response entity body</span> to null.</p></li>
1333:
1.252 avankest 1334: <li><p>Empty the list of <span>author request headers</span>.</p></li>
1335:
1.203 avankest 1336: <li><p>Set the <span>error flag</span> to true.</p></li>
1337:
1338: <li>
1339: <p>If the state is <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span>,
1340: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> with the
1341: <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> being false, or
1342: <span title="DONE state">DONE</span> go to the next step.</p>
1.12 avankest 1343:
1.203 avankest 1344: <p>Otherwise run these substeps:</p>
1.58 avankest 1345:
1346: <ol>
1.203 avankest 1347: <li><p>Switch the state to <span title="DONE state">DONE</span>.</p></li>
1.170 avankest 1348:
1.203 avankest 1349: <li><p>Set the <span><code>send()</code> flag</span> to false.</p></li>
1.96 avankest 1350:
1.203 avankest 1351: <li><p><span>Dispatch a <code>readystatechange</code> event</span>.</p></li>
1.248 avankest 1352:
1353:
1.58 avankest 1354: </ol>
1.250 avankest 1355:
1.248 avankest 1356:
1.250 avankest 1357: <p class="note">A future version of this specification will dispatch an
1358: <code title="abort-event">abort</code> event here.</p>
1.248 avankest 1359:
1.203 avankest 1360: </li>
1361:
1362: <li>
1363: <p>Switch the state to <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span>.</p>
1364:
1365: <p class="note">No <code>readystatechange</code> event is dispatched.</p>
1366: </li>
1367: </ol>
1368:
1369:
1370:
1.205 avankest 1371: <h3 id="response">Response</h3>
1.203 avankest 1372:
1373: <h4>The <code title="">status</code> attribute</h4>
1374:
1375: <p>The <dfn id="status"><code>status</code></dfn> attribute
1.222 avankest 1376: <em class="ct">must</em> return the result of running these steps:</p>
1.226 avankest 1377:
1.222 avankest 1378: <ol>
1379: <li><p>If the state is <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span> or
1.239 avankest 1380: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> return 0 and terminate these
1.222 avankest 1381: steps.</p></li>
1382:
1.239 avankest 1383: <li><p>If the <span>error flag</span> is true return 0 and terminate
1384: these steps.</p></li>
1.222 avankest 1385:
1386: <li><p>Return the HTTP status code.</p></li>
1.248 avankest 1387: </ol>
1.203 avankest 1388:
1389:
1390: <h4>The <code title="">statusText</code> attribute</h4>
1391:
1392: <p>The <dfn id="statustext"><code>statusText</code></dfn> attribute
1.222 avankest 1393: <em class="ct">must</em> return the result of running these steps:</p>
1394:
1395: <ol>
1396: <li><p>If the state is <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span> or
1.239 avankest 1397: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> return the empty string and
1398: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.222 avankest 1399:
1400: <li><p>If the <span>error flag</span> is true return the empty string and
1401: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1402:
1403: <li><p>Return the HTTP status text.</p></li>
1404: </ol>
1.203 avankest 1405:
1406:
1407: <h4>The <code title="">getResponseHeader()</code> method</h4>
1408:
1409: <p>When the
1410: <dfn id="getresponseheader" title="getresponseheader"><code>getResponseHeader(<var>header</var>)</code></dfn>
1.217 avankest 1411: is invoked, the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> run these steps:</p>
1.203 avankest 1412:
1413: <ol>
1414: <li><p>If the state is <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span> or
1.239 avankest 1415: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> return null and terminate these
1.203 avankest 1416: steps.</p></li>
1417:
1.239 avankest 1418: <li><p>If the <span>error flag</span> is true return null
1.203 avankest 1419: and terminate these steps.</p></li>
1420:
1.256 avankest 1421: <li><p>If any code point in <var>header</var> is higher than
1422: U+00FF LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS return null and terminate
1423: these steps.</p></li>
1424:
1425: <li><p>Let <var>header</var> be the result of
1426: <span title="deflate a DOMString into an byte sequence">deflating</span>
1427: <var>header</var>.</p></li> <!-- This sounds lame, but it works. -->
1428:
1429: <li><p>If <var>header</var> is a case-insensitive match for
1430: <code>Set-Cookie</code> or <code>Set-Cookie2</code> return null and
1431: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1432:
1.256 avankest 1433: <li><p>If <var>header</var> is a case-insensitive match for multiple HTTP
1434: response headers, return the
1435: <span title="inflate an byte sequence into a DOMString">inflated</span>
1436: values of these headers as a single concatenated string separated from
1437: each other by a U+002C COMMA U+0020 SPACE character pair and terminate
1438: these steps.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1439:
1.256 avankest 1440: <li><p>If <var>header</var> is a case-insensitive match for a single HTTP
1441: response header, return the
1442: <span title="inflate an byte sequence into a DOMString">inflated</span>
1443: value of that header and terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1444:
1.239 avankest 1445: <li><p>Return null.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1446: </ol>
1447:
1.248 avankest 1448:
1449:
1.203 avankest 1450: <div class="example">
1.250 avankest 1451:
1452: <p>For the following script:</p>
1453:
1454: <pre><code>var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
1455: client.open("GET", "unicorns-are-teh-awesome.txt", true);
1.5 avankest 1456: client.send();
1.12 avankest 1457: client.onreadystatechange = function() {
1.250 avankest 1458: if(this.readyState == 2) {
1459: print(client.getResponseHeader("Content-Type"));
1460: }
1461: }</code></pre>
1462:
1463: <p>The <code>print()</code> function will get to process something
1464: like:</p>
1.5 avankest 1465:
1.250 avankest 1466: <pre><code>text/plain; charset=UTF-8</code></pre>
1.203 avankest 1467: </div>
1.12 avankest 1468:
1469:
1.203 avankest 1470: <h4>The <code title="">getAllResponseHeaders()</code> method</h4>
1.14 avankest 1471:
1.203 avankest 1472: <p>When the
1473: <dfn id="getallresponseheaders"><code>getAllResponseHeaders()</code></dfn>
1474: method is invoked, the user agent <em class="ct">must</em> run the
1475: following steps:</p>
1.58 avankest 1476:
1.203 avankest 1477: <ol>
1478: <li><p>If the state is <span title="UNSENT state">UNSENT</span> or
1.239 avankest 1479: <span title="OPENED state">OPENED</span> return the empty string and
1480: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1481:
1482: <li><p>If the <span>error flag</span> is true return the empty string and
1483: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1484:
1.256 avankest 1485: <li><p>Return all the HTTP headers, excluding headers that are a
1486: case-insensitive match for <code>Set-Cookie</code> or
1487: <code>Set-Cookie2</code>,
1488: <span title="inflate an byte sequence into a DOMString">inflated</span>,
1489: as a single string, with each header line
1490: separated by a U+000D CR U+000A LF pair, excluding the status line, and
1.203 avankest 1491: with each header name and header value separated by a
1492: U+003A COLON U+0020 SPACE pair.</p></li>
1493: </ol>
1.58 avankest 1494:
1.250 avankest 1495:
1496:
1.203 avankest 1497: <div class="example">
1.250 avankest 1498: <p>For the following script:</p>
1499:
1500: <pre><code>var client = new XMLHttpRequest();
1501: client.open("GET", "narwhals-too.txt", true);
1.5 avankest 1502: client.send();
1.12 avankest 1503: client.onreadystatechange = function() {
1.179 avankest 1504: if(this.readyState == 2) {
1.203 avankest 1505: print(this.getAllResponseHeaders());
1.12 avankest 1506: }
1.250 avankest 1507: }</code></pre>
1508:
1509: <p>The <code>print()</code> function will get to process something
1510: like:</p>
1.1 avankest 1511:
1.250 avankest 1512: <pre><code>Date: 2004年10月24日 04:58:38 GMT
1.203 avankest 1513: Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix)
1514: Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
1515: Connection: Keep-Alive
1516: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
1517: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8</code></pre>
1518: </div>
1519:
1.250 avankest 1520:
1.203 avankest 1521:
1522: <h4>Response Entity Body</h4>
1523:
1.248 avankest 1524: <p>The <dfn id="response-mime-type">response MIME type</dfn> is the MIME
1525: type the <code>Content-Type</code> header contains without any
1526: parameters or null if the header could not be parsed properly or was
1527: omitted. The <dfn id="override-mime-type">override MIME type</dfn> is
1528: always null. <dfn id="final-mime-type">Final MIME type</dfn> is the
1529: override MIME type unless that is null in which case it is the response
1530: MIME type.</p>
1531:
1532: <p>The <dfn id="response-charset">response charset</dfn> is the value of
1533: the <code>charset</code> parameter of the <code>Content-Type</code> header
1534: or null if there was no <code>charset</code> parameter or if
1535: the header could not be parsed properly or was omitted. The
1536: <dfn id="override-charset">override charset</dfn> is always null.
1537: <dfn id="final-charset">Final charset</dfn> is the override charset unless
1538: that is null in which case it is the response charset.</p>
1.250 avankest 1539:
1.248 avankest 1540:
1541: <p class="note"><span>Override MIME type</span> and
1542: <span>override charset</span> are introduced here solely to make editing
1543: several levels of XMLHttpRequest simultaneously somewhat easier. Apologies
1544: for any confusion they might cause.</p>
1545:
1.250 avankest 1546:
1.248 avankest 1547: <hr>
1548:
1.203 avankest 1549: <p>The <dfn id="response-entity-body">response entity body</dfn> is the
1.255 avankest 1550: fragment of the <span>entity body</span> of the response received so far
1551: (<span title="LOADING state">LOADING</span>) or the complete entity body
1552: of the response (<span title="DONE state">DONE</span>). If the response
1553: does not have an entity body the response entity body is null.</p>
1554:
1555: <p class="note">The <span>response entity body</span> is updated as part
1556: of the <code>send()</code> algorithm.</p>
1.250 avankest 1557:
1.203 avankest 1558: <hr>
1559:
1560: <p>The <dfn id="text-response-entity-body">text response entity body</dfn>
1.248 avankest 1561: is a <code>DOMString</code> representing the <span>response entity
1562: body</span>. The text response entity body is the return value of the
1.203 avankest 1563: following algorithm:</p>
1564:
1565: <ol>
1.248 avankest 1566: <li><p>If the response entity body is null return the empty string and
1567: terminate these steps.</p>
1568:
1569: <li><p>Let <var>charset</var> be the <span>final charset</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1570:
1.248 avankest 1571: <li><p>Let <var>mime</var> be the <span>final MIME type</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1572:
1.248 avankest 1573: <li><p>If <var>charset</var> is null and <var>mime</var> is null,
1.203 avankest 1574: <code>text/xml</code>, <code>application/xml</code> or ends in
1.248 avankest 1575: <code title="">+xml</code> use the rules set forth in the XML
1576: specifications to determine the character encoding. Let
1577: <var>charset</var> be the determined character encoding.</p></li>
1578:
1579: <li><p>If <var>charset</var> is null and <var>mime</var> is
1580: <code>text/html</code> follow the rules set forth in the HTML
1581: specification to determine the character encoding. Let
1.203 avankest 1582: <var>charset</var> be the determined character encoding.
1583: [<cite><span>HTML5</span></cite>]</p></li>
1584:
1585: <li>
1586: <p>If <var>charset</var> is null then, for each of the rows in the
1587: following table, starting with the first one and going down, if the first
1588: bytes of <var>bytes</var> match the bytes given in the first column, then
1589: let <var>charset</var> be the encoding given in the cell in the second
1590: column of that row. If there is no match <var>charset</var> remains
1591: null.</p>
1592:
1593: <table>
1594: <thead>
1595: <tr>
1596: <th>Bytes in Hexadecimal
1597: <th>Description
1.237 avankest 1598: <tbody>
1.203 avankest 1599: <tr>
1600: <td>FE FF
1601: <td>UTF-16BE BOM
1602: <tr>
1603: <td>FF FE
1604: <td>UTF-16LE BOM
1605: <tr>
1606: <td>EF BB BF
1.237 avankest 1607: <td>UTF-8 BOM
1.203 avankest 1608: </table>
1609: </li>
1610:
1611: <li><p>If <var>charset</var> is null let <var>charset</var> be
1612: UTF-8.</p></li>
1613:
1614: <li><p>Return the result of decoding the response entity body using
1615: <var>charset</var>. Replace bytes or sequences of bytes that are not
1.248 avankest 1616: valid accordng to the <var>charset</var> with a single
1617: U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER character.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1618: </ol>
1619:
1620: <p class="note">Authors are strongly encouraged to encode their resources
1621: using UTF-8.</p>
1.248 avankest 1622:
1.203 avankest 1623: <hr>
1624:
1.248 avankest 1625: <p>The <dfn id="document-response-entity-body">document response entity
1626: body</dfn> is either a <code>Document</code> representing the
1627: <span>response entity body</span> or null. The document
1628: response entity body is the return value of the following algorithm:</p>
1.12 avankest 1629:
1.203 avankest 1630: <ol>
1631: <li><p>If the <span>response entity body</span> is null terminate these
1.239 avankest 1632: steps and return null.</p></li>
1.12 avankest 1633:
1.248 avankest 1634: <li><p>If <span>final MIME type</span> is not null,
1635: <code>text/xml</code>,
1636: <code>application/xml</code>, and does not end in
1637: <code title="">+xml</code> terminate these steps and return
1638: null.</li>
1639:
1640:
1.203 avankest 1641:
1642: <li>
1.248 avankest 1643: <p>Let <var>document</var> be an object implementing the
1644: <code>Document</code> interface that represents the result of parsing
1645: the response entity body into a document tree following the rules from
1646: the XML specifications. If this fails (unsupported character encoding,
1647: namespace well-formedness error et cetera) terminate these steps return
1648: null. [<cite><span>XML</span></cite>]</p>
1649:
1650: <p class="note">Scripts in the resulting document tree will not be executed,
1651: resources referenced will not be loaded and no associated XSLT will be
1652: applied.</p>
1.203 avankest 1653: </li>
1.88 avankest 1654:
1.248 avankest 1655:
1656:
1657: <li><p>Return <var>document</var>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1658: </ol>
1.12 avankest 1659:
1660:
1.248 avankest 1661:
1662:
1663:
1.203 avankest 1664: <h4>The <code title="">responseText</code> attribute</h4>
1.12 avankest 1665:
1.203 avankest 1666: <p>The <dfn id="responsetext"><code>responseText</code></dfn> attribute
1.217 avankest 1667: <em class="ct">must</em> return the result of running these steps:</p>
1.79 avankest 1668:
1.203 avankest 1669: <ol>
1.248 avankest 1670: <li><p>If the state is not <span title="LOADING state">LOADING</span> or
1671: <span title="DONE state">DONE</span> return the empty string and
1.203 avankest 1672: terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.75 avankest 1673:
1.203 avankest 1674: <li><p>Return the <span>text response entity body</span>.</p></li>
1675: </ol>
1.12 avankest 1676:
1677:
1.203 avankest 1678: <h4>The <code title="">responseXML</code> attribute</h4>
1.12 avankest 1679:
1.203 avankest 1680: <p>The <dfn id="responsexml"><code>responseXML</code></dfn> attribute
1.217 avankest 1681: <em class="ct">must</em> return the result of running these steps:</p>
1.12 avankest 1682:
1.203 avankest 1683: <ol>
1684: <li><p>If the state is not <span title="DONE state">DONE</span> return
1.239 avankest 1685: null and terminate these steps.</p></li>
1.12 avankest 1686:
1.248 avankest 1687: <li><p>Return the <span>document response entity body</span>.</p></li>
1.203 avankest 1688: </ol>
1.121 avankest 1689:
1.248 avankest 1690:
1691:
1.12 avankest 1692:
1.240 avankest 1693: <h2 id="exceptions">Exceptions</h2>
1.24 avankest 1694:
1.138 avankest 1695: <p>Several algorithms in this specification may result in an exception
1696: being thrown. These exceptions are all part of the group
1.185 avankest 1697: <code>ExceptionCode</code> and use the <code>DOMException</code> object,
1.138 avankest 1698: which is defined in DOM Level 3 Core. In addition this specification
1699: extends the <code>ExceptionCode</code> group with several new
1700: constants as indicated below. [<cite><span>DOM3Core</span></cite>]</p>
1.203 avankest 1701:
1.193 avankest 1702: <p class="note">Thus, exceptions used by this specification and not
1703: defined in this section are defined by DOM Level 3 Core.</p>
1.31 avankest 1704:
1.138 avankest 1705: <pre class="idl">const unsigned short <span>SECURITY_ERR</span> = 18;
1.199 avankest 1706: const unsigned short <span>NETWORK_ERR</span> = 19;
1707: const unsigned short <span>ABORT_ERR</span> = 20;</pre>
1.31 avankest 1708:
1.138 avankest 1709: <p>The <dfn id="security-err"><code>SECURITY_ERR</code></dfn> exception is
1710: raised if an attempt is made to perform an operation or access some data
1711: in a way that would be a security risk or a violation of the user agent's
1712: security policy.</p>
1713:
1714: <!-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2006May/0027.html -->
1715:
1.33 avankest 1716: <p>The <dfn id="network-err"><code>NETWORK_ERR</code></dfn> exception is
1.138 avankest 1717: raised when a network error occurs in synchronous requests.</p>
1.121 avankest 1718:
1.138 avankest 1719: <p>The <dfn id="abort-err"><code>ABORT_ERR</code></dfn> exception is
1720: raised when the user aborts a request in synchronous requests.</p>
1.248 avankest 1721:
1722:
1.203 avankest 1723:
1.240 avankest 1724: <p class="note">These exceptions will be folded into an update of
1.199 avankest 1725: DOM Level 3 Core in due course, as they are appropriate for other API
1726: specifications as well.</p>
1.121 avankest 1727:
1.248 avankest 1728:
1.29 avankest 1729: <h2 class="no-num" id="notcovered">Not in this Specification</h2>
1730:
1.143 avankest 1731: <p><em>This section is non-normative.</em></p>
1.29 avankest 1732:
1.72 avankest 1733: <p>This specification does not include the following features which are
1734: being considered for a future version of this specification:</p>
1.29 avankest 1735:
1736: <ul>
1737: <li><code>load</code> event and <code>onload</code> attribute;</li>
1738: <li><code>error</code> event and <code>onerror</code> attribute;</li>
1739: <li><code>progress</code> event and <code>onprogress</code> attribute;</li>
1740: <li><code title="">abort</code> event and <code>onabort</code> attribute;</li>
1741: <li>Timers have been suggested, perhaps an <code>ontimeout</code>
1742: attribute;</li>
1743: <li>Property to disable following redirects;</li>
1.30 avankest 1744: <li><code title="">responseXML</code> for <code>text/html</code>
1745: documents;</li>
1.203 avankest 1746: <li>Cross-origin <code title="">XMLHttpRequest</code>;</li>
1.87 avankest 1747: <li><code>responseBody</code> to deal with byte streams;</li>
1.114 avankest 1748: <li><code>overrideMimeType</code> to fix up MIME types;</li>
1.87 avankest 1749: <li><code>getRequestHeader()</code> and
1750: <code>removeRequestHeader()</code>.</li>
1.29 avankest 1751: </ul>
1.248 avankest 1752:
1.29 avankest 1753:
1.203 avankest 1754:
1.248 avankest 1755:
1756:
1.203 avankest 1757:
1.248 avankest 1758: <h2 class="no-num" id="references">References</h2>
1.203 avankest 1759:
1.177 avankest 1760: <p>Unless marked "Non-normative" these references are normative.</p>
1.11 avankest 1761:
1.6 avankest 1762: <dl>
1.230 avankest 1763: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-cookies">COOKIES</dfn>]</dt>
1.203 avankest 1764: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2109">HTTP State Management
1765: Mechanism</a></cite>, D. Kristol, L. Montulli, editors. IETF, February
1766: 1997.</dd>
1767: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965">HTTP State Management
1768: Mechanism</a></cite>, D. Kristol, L. Montulli, editors. IETF, October
1.218 avankest 1769: 2000.</dd>
1.211 avankest 1770:
1.203 avankest 1771: <!-- XXX These specs do not match reality. Also, the latter obsoletes the
1772: former -->
1773:
1.248 avankest 1774:
1775:
1.155 avankest 1776: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-dom2events">DOM2Events</dfn>]</dt>
1777: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Events/">Document
1.160 avankest 1778: Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Events Specification</a></cite>, T. Pixley,
1779: editor. W3C, November 2000.</dd>
1.155 avankest 1780:
1.145 avankest 1781: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-dom3core">DOM3Core</dfn>]</dt>
1.11 avankest 1782: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core">Document Object
1.92 avankest 1783: Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a></cite>, A. Le Hors, P. Le
1.139 avankest 1784: Hégaret, L. Wood, G. Nicol, J. Robie, M. Champion, S. Byrne,
1785: editors. W3C, April 2004.</dd>
1.11 avankest 1786:
1.117 avankest 1787: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-ecmascript">ECMAScript</dfn>]</dt>
1.92 avankest 1788: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm">ECMAScript
1.248 avankest 1789: Language Specification</a></cite>, Third Edition. ECMA, December
1790: 1999.</dd>
1791:
1792:
1.171 avankest 1793:
1.145 avankest 1794: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-html5">HTML5</dfn>]</dt>
1.250 avankest 1795: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/">HTML5</a></cite>
1796: (work in progress), I. Hickson, D. Hyatt, editors. W3C, 2010.</dd>
1797: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/html5/current-work/">HTML5</a></cite>
1798: (work in progress), I. Hickson, editor. WHATWG, 2010.</dd>
1.198 avankest 1799:
1800: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-httpverbsec">HTTPVERBSEC</dfn>]</dt>
1.248 avankest 1801: <dd>(Non-normative)
1802: <cite><a href="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/867593">Multiple vendors'
1803: web servers enable HTTP TRACE method by default</a></cite>, US-CERT.</dd>
1804: <dd>(Non-normative)
1805: <cite><a href="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/288308">Microsoft Internet
1806: Information Server (IIS) vulnerable to cross-site scripting via HTTP
1807: TRACK method</a></cite>, US-CERT.</dd>
1808: <dd>(Non-normative)
1809: <cite><a href="http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/150227">HTTP proxy default
1810: configurations allow arbitrary TCP connections</a></cite>, US-CERT.</dd>
1811:
1812:
1813:
1814: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-rfc2046">RFC2046</dfn>]</dt>
1815: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046">Multipurpose Internet Mail
1816: Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types</a></cite>, N. Freed, N.
1817: Borenstein, editors. IETF, November 1996.</dd>
1.198 avankest 1818:
1.145 avankest 1819: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-rfc2119">RFC2119</dfn>]</dt>
1.117 avankest 1820: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119">Key words for use in RFCs to
1821: Indicate Requirement Levels</a></cite>, S. Bradner. IETF, March 1997.</dd>
1.12 avankest 1822:
1.248 avankest 1823: <dt>[<dfn id="rfc-rfc2616">RFC2616</dfn>]</dt>
1.11 avankest 1824: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616">Hypertext Transfer Protocol
1.92 avankest 1825: -- HTTP/1.1</a></cite>, R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L.
1826: Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee, editors. IETF, June 1999.</dd>
1.12 avankest 1827:
1.37 avankest 1828: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-rfc2617">RFC2617</dfn>]</dt>
1.11 avankest 1829: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617">HTTP Authentication: Basic
1.92 avankest 1830: and Digest Access Authentication</a></cite>, P. Hallam-Baker, J.
1831: Hostetler, S. Lawrence, P. Leach, A. Luotonen, L. Stewart, editors. IETF,
1832: June 1999.</dd>
1.12 avankest 1833:
1.37 avankest 1834: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-rfc3986">RFC3986</dfn>]</dt>
1.11 avankest 1835: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986">Uniform Resource Identifier
1.92 avankest 1836: (URI): Generic Syntax</a></cite>, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter,
1837: editors. IETF, January 2005.</dd>
1.184 avankest 1838:
1.248 avankest 1839: <dt>[<dfn id=ref-rfc3987>RFC3987</dfn>]</dt>
1840: <dd><cite><a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987">Internationalized
1841: Resource Identifiers (IRIs)</a></cite>, M. Duerst, M. Suignard, editors.
1842: IETF, January 2005. L. Masinter, editors. IETF, January 2005.</dd>
1843:
1.203 avankest 1844: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-webidl">WebIDL</dfn>]</dt>
1.200 avankest 1845: <dd><cite><a href="http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebIDL/">Web
1.250 avankest 1846: IDL</a></cite> (work in progress), C. McCormack, editor. W3C, 2010.</dd> <!-- XXX add Sam -->
1.181 avankest 1847:
1.92 avankest 1848: <dt>[<dfn id="ref-xml">XML</dfn>]</dt>
1849: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/">Extensible Markup Language
1.203 avankest 1850: (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)</a></cite>, T. Bray, J. Paoli, C.
1851: Sperberg-McQueen, E. Maler, F. Yergeau, editors. W3C, November 2008.</dd>
1.92 avankest 1852: <dd><cite><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/">Namespaces in XML
1.256 avankest 1853: (Third Edition)</a></cite>, T. Bray, D. Hollander, A. Layman, R. Tobin,
1854: H. S. Thompson, editors. W3C, December 2009.</dd>
1.1 avankest 1855: </dl>
1.11 avankest 1856:
1.203 avankest 1857:
1858:
1.130 avankest 1859: <h2 class="no-num" id="acknowledgments">Acknowledgments</h2>
1.11 avankest 1860:
1.159 avankest 1861: <p>The editor would like to thank
1.12 avankest 1862:
1.163 avankest 1863: Addison Phillips,
1.159 avankest 1864: Ahmed Kamel,
1865: Alex Hopmann,
1866: Alex Vincent,
1867: Alexey Proskuryakov,
1868: Asbjørn Ulsberg,
1869: Boris Zbarsky,
1870: Björn Höhrmann,
1871: Cameron McCormack,
1872: Christophe Jolif,
1873: Charles McCathieNevile,
1874: Dan Winship,
1.248 avankest 1875: David Andersson,
1.159 avankest 1876: David Håsäther,
1.248 avankest 1877: David Levin,
1.159 avankest 1878: Dean Jackson,
1879: Denis Sureau,
1880: Doug Schepers,
1881: Douglas Livingstone,
1882: Elliotte Harold,
1883: Eric Lawrence,
1.196 avankest 1884: Erik Dahlström,
1.163 avankest 1885: Geoffrey Sneddon,
1.159 avankest 1886: Gideon Cohn,
1887: Gorm Haug Eriksen,
1.247 avankest 1888: Håkon Wium Lie,
1.159 avankest 1889: Hallvord R. M. Steen,
1.247 avankest 1890: Huub Schaeks,
1.159 avankest 1891: Ian Davis,
1892: Ian Hickson,
1893: Ivan Herman,
1894: Jeff Walden,
1895: Jens Lindström,
1896: Jim Deegan,
1897: Jim Ley,
1898: Joe Farro,
1899: Jonas Sicking,
1900: Julian Reschke,
1901: Karl Dubost,
1.175 avankest 1902: Lachlan Hunt,
1.159 avankest 1903: Maciej Stachowiak,
1904: Magnus Kristiansen,
1905: Marc Hadley,
1906: Marcos Caceres,
1907: Mark Baker,
1.203 avankest 1908: Mark Birbeck,
1.159 avankest 1909: Mark Nottingham,
1.248 avankest 1910: Martin Hassman,
1.159 avankest 1911: Mohamed Zergaoui,
1.256 avankest 1912: Olli Pettay,
1.159 avankest 1913: Pawel Glowacki,
1.231 avankest 1914: Peter Michaux,
1.159 avankest 1915: Robin Berjon,
1.248 avankest 1916: Rune Halvorsen,
1.159 avankest 1917: Ruud Steltenpool,
1918: Simon Pieters,
1919: Stewart Brodie,
1920: Sunava Dutta,
1.186 avankest 1921: Thomas Roessler,
1.203 avankest 1922: Tom Magliery, and
1.159 avankest 1923: Zhenbin Xu
1.181 avankest 1924:
1.159 avankest 1925: for their contributions to this specification.</p>
1.12 avankest 1926:
1.1 avankest 1927: <p>Special thanks to the Microsoft employees who first implemented the
1.143 avankest 1928: <code title="">XMLHttpRequest</code> interface, which was first widely
1929: deployed by the Windows Internet Explorer browser.</p>
1.12 avankest 1930:
1.143 avankest 1931: <p>Special thanks also to the WHATWG for drafting an initial version of
1932: this specification in their Web Applications 1.0 document (now renamed to
1.250 avankest 1933: HTML5). [<cite><span>HTML5</span></cite>]</p>
1.12 avankest 1934:
1.143 avankest 1935: <p>Thanks also to all those who have helped to improve this specification
1936: by sending suggestions and corrections. (Please, keep bugging us with your
1.22 avankest 1937: issues!)</p>
1.1 avankest 1938: </body>
1939: </html>
1.211 avankest 1940:
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