15494 2012-01-10 13:56:43 +0000 Should Content-Transfer-Encoding be forbidden? 2012-05-14 14:18:44 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG XHR unspecified All All RESOLVED FIXED http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#the-setrequestheader%28%29-method P3 normal --- 1 julian.reschke annevk bzbarsky jonas mike public-webapps w3c public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 62471 0 julian.reschke 2012-01-10 13:56:43 +0000 The list of "author request headers" mentions Content-Transfer-Encoding. This is confusing as there is no such header field in HTTP (there is one in email, though). 62472 1 annevk 2012-01-10 14:01:32 +0000 I think you are confusing author request headers with headers that cannot be set by authors. What is wrong with prohibiting Content-Transfer-Encoding? 62474 2 julian.reschke 2012-01-10 14:26:45 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > I think you are confusing author request headers with headers that cannot be > set by authors. What is wrong with prohibiting Content-Transfer-Encoding? a) yes, sorry. b) as I said: what's the point in forbidding it when it doesn't exist? 62475 3 annevk 2012-01-10 14:32:43 +0000 I don't know. 62479 4 bzbarsky 2012-01-10 17:05:36 +0000 Julian is right: there is no such header, so prohibiting it makes no sense. Why was that text added to the spec? Did it actually mean to prohibit setting Content-Encoding or Transfer-Encoding (or maybe both?) 62480 5 annevk 2012-01-10 17:09:20 +0000 Not sure. The header has been there since the draft of June 2007. 62481 6 julian.reschke 2012-01-10 17:15:53 +0000 (In reply to comment #5) > Not sure. The header has been there since the draft of June 2007. See also <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapi/2008May/0189.html>. 67646 7 annevk 2012-05-14 13:41:20 +0000 Transfer-Encoding is forbidden. I think the idea must have been to forbid Content-Encoding. 67648 8 annevk 2012-05-14 14:18:44 +0000 I removed Content-Transfer-Encoding. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/xhr/rev/33501b9188cb It was originally added in 1.68 of http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/Overview.src.html by the way without a clear mailing list discussion associated with it.