Re: XMLHttpRequest and multipart responses

Christoph Dorn wrote:
> Does the XMLHttpRequest object support multipart/mixed response
> content?

It supports multipart/x-mixed-replace.  multipart/mixed doesn't really make much 
sense in an XMLHttpRequest context -- it would require that the parts be exposed 
to the caller all at once, which the API doesn't really allow.

For multipart/x-mixed-replace, it's basically treated like multiple 
request/response cycles.

> I presume this is the intended and proper result?

Yep.

> Is there any way to set an additional header to make the object just
> read the text/xml section and load the XML document properly?

No.

> The other option would be to intercept and parse the response to
> return the text/xml section only to the XMLHttpRequest object. Is this
> possible?

Not from untrusted script.  From trusted script you could just do all the HTTP 
access yourself, of course.

-Boris