- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:52:28 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Joe Gregorio wrote:
>
> It is just an edge case, but when using the XMLHttpRequest
> setRequestHeader()[1] what are the rules for over-riding existing
> headers?
>
> For example, what if you are already authenticated and called
> setRequestHeader('Authorization', 'blah')?
>
> Does the rule for concatenation apply to headers
> not created by setRequestHeader?
I have attempted to answer this question at:
http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#setrequestheader
Let me know if the new text is satisfactory. (In short, it depends based
on which header the author tries to override.)
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