[webkit-dev] Passing null or undefined object as input url for XMLHttpRequest open()

[Pozdnyakov, Mikhail]

This is an unlikely situation to occur in real web pages, so there is neither much risk nor much benefit to this change. One way this could break a page is if it calculates a URL and erroneously ends up with a null. In this case, raising an exception would further break page logic - instead of getting error and loaded events, it will likely be stuck waiting for these forever.

Could you elaborate on why this seems incorrect to you? Generally speaking, special casing just null and undefined to bypass toString conversion would be unusual and surprising.

- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov

OK I agree that exception could break logic further but I believe we could at least use just <base URL> instead of "<base URL> /null"
in such cases.
'null' or 'undefined' by the way can be name of a resource on server and xhr will address to this resource whenever
it is given with a null object.

To test the behaviour on different browsers I put 'null' file to /var/www and watched whether it is opened by xhr given with null object.
Chromium, Firefox and Opera turned to the 'null' file and IE raised an exception  on xhr 'open()' method.

BR,
Mikhail
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