Re: Safari XHR Error

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From	Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com>
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Subject	Re: Safari XHR Error
Date	Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:54:53 +0200
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Am 2012-03-29 21:26, MC meinte:
> On 3/29/2012 1:26 PM, Gregor Kofler wrote:
>> Am 2012-03-29 19:05, MC meinte:
>>> I found a solution for the problem.
>>>
>>> It seems that Safari will accepts a relative URL for the XHR but does
>>> NOT post it to the root domain. Setting the the the URL to
>>> "https://mydomain.com/ws/myaction.jsp" worked. It appears Safari was
>>> posting relative, ie, my calling resource is located at
>>> https://mydomain.com/someDir/somePage.html such that a URL of
>>> "/ws/myaction.jsp" is posted to
>>> "https://mydomain.com/someDir/ws/myaction.jsp".
>>>
>>> None of the other browsers do this..bug???
>>
>> They are only forgiving and assuming:
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-open-method
>>
>> The draft requests a _URL_
>>
>> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#url>
>>
>>
>> Gregor
>>
>>
> Gregor,
>
> The RFC3986 regarding URL's regards a relative URL references as valid,
> if there is a - "'base URI'" exists against which
> the relative reference is applied".
>
> It appears that Safari does indeed have a bug as it resolves the base
> URI differently (incorrectly) from the other browsers.

I'd still consider this not a bug. Anyway, you can use the information 
provided by the location object and safely obtain "compatible" absolute 
URIs.

Gregor

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Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 09:37 -0500
  Re: Safari XHR Error Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-29 15:45 +0100
    Re: Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 10:04 -0500
  Re: Safari XHR Error Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-03-29 17:22 +0200
  Re: Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 12:05 -0500
    Re: Safari XHR Error Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-03-29 20:26 +0200
      Re: Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 14:26 -0500
        Re: Safari XHR Error Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-03-29 21:54 +0200
          Re: Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 15:24 -0500
    Re: Safari XHR Error Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-29 22:28 +0200
      Re: Safari XHR Error David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-29 18:06 -0700
  Re: Safari XHR Error "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-29 21:39 +0100
    Re: Safari XHR Error MC <news@aisus.com> - 2012-03-29 16:07 -0500
      Re: Safari XHR Error Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-03-29 17:30 -0700
      Re: Safari XHR Error "Richard Cornford" <Richard@litotes.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-30 01:46 +0100
      Re: Safari XHR Error David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-29 14:54 -0700

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