On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:09:22 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <
bzbarsky@...> wrote:
> On 6/13/12 4:55 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
>> If it redirects, it switches to CORS. However, there are some bugs in
>> the spec... I just filed
>>
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17478 now.
>
> Can we push this whole algorithm down into the CORS spec? It looks like
> at this point fetching-resources.html and the XHR spec are both trying
> to define the same algorithm (no CORS for same-origin, check origin on
> redirect, switch to CORS as needed, etc), and it would be pretty nice if
> they ended up actually defining it the same way. Simplest way to do
> that is to define it in the CORS spec and just reference it in the
> others, I'd think.
Yeah or maybe even merge this algorithm, the fetch algorithm, and the
cross-origin request algorithms. Currently it's extremely hard to follow.
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Simon Pieters
Opera Software
