Re: XMLHttpRequest in Firefox 1.5

Note crosspost/followu-to netscape.public.mozilla.xml as this has 
nothing to do with the JavaScript engines.

rpotencz wrote:

> I am using the XMLHttpRequest object to communicate between a browser
> extension and a "server" program installed locally. Until now,
> XMLHttpRequest didn't care about the actual content of the request and
> the answer, but starting with version 1.5, my requests raise a "not
> well-formed" error. 

What kind of requests, how does your code look, which method call or 
statement gives that error message?
Does XMLHttpRequest raise the error?


> I have two questions: does anybody here know why
> the Mozilla developers would want to force JavaScript developers to use
> XML syntax? And, most importantly, is there a document availabe which
> describes how the request and the answer must look like in order to be
> considered "well formed" ?

Well-formedness is defined in the XML specification for XML. For 
instance if the HTTP response has a Content-Type header with an XML MIME 
type like text/xml or application/xml then the XMLHttpRequest object 
tries to parse the response as XML to populate the responseXML DOM 
document object and there you could get an XML parse error that the 
response is not well-formed.

As for your problem, see the questions above, provide some details of 
your code and we can tell you more.


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