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Given that most APIs allow both views an raw buffers, there's not really any good argument left for XMLHttpRequest to be different here.
This is now allowed due to refactoring in terms of Fetch. The neutering issue is not fixed however. https://github.com/whatwg/xhr/commit/82e602e4507c19802c373bf19f5e956973f1c6c3