Opera 9.0 Technology Preview 1 and XMLHttpRequest http headers
I come back from a long holidays, and there will be many news coming in the next days. I was reading yesterday about the new Opera 9.0 technology Preview 1 and the new XMLHttpRequest http headers support.
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
Generally I set the encoding type in the server code to avoid any javascript errors, I don't see the utility to set it in the Javascript side, since by default it's considered as "text/xml; charset=utf-8". There is also something new since Opera 8.5, XMLHttpRequest now returns the status code for the cached page if the request returns the cached page.
There is still two things that I'm looking for which are having more accessibility on xmlhttprequest cache and sending binary content via xmlhttpRequest. Both features still not obviously implementable on current browsers, but Interesting what Opera are offering as a competitor of IE and Firefox after becoming free.
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