[webkit-help] Only GET, HEAD and POST methods available with XMLHttpRequest

[Ben Short]

Hi Julien,

I'm building on windows with the following command.

build-webkit --wincairo --release

I'll take a look at the code when I'm back at work.

Many thanks

Ben

On 30 March 2013 21:15, Julien Chaffraix <julien.chaffraix at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I've built webkit from source revision 146912. My web app uses Ext JS to
> do
> > Ajax Rest requests. This means that it needs to use GET, PUT, POST and
> > DELETE methods.
> >
> > When I run my web app in the webkit build it can only send GET and POST
> > methods.
> >
> > By loading this page http://www.mnot.net/javascript/xmlhttprequest/ I
> get
> > the following results...
> >
> > Testing Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like
> > Gecko)
> >
> > What Methods Are Available?
>
> [Snipped the failing results on your platform, passing on Chrome]
>
> > I'm not sure why this is. Is it fixable?
>
> If you control whole stack, nothing is really unfixable, you will just
> need more effort :-)
>
> Also this requires some code in WebKit (more below) so it should be
> fixable.
>
> > Am I missing a configuration option?
>
> Last time I touched this code (which was several years ago), the
> network code needed to be aware of the custom methods. That means that
> when you create the low-level library representation of an HTTP
> request, you need to take into account
> ResourceRequestBase::m_httpMethod. As you didn't tell us which port
> you are building (see http://www.webkit.org/asking_questions.html), my
> wild guess is that your platform doesn't support that. I don't know of
> any configuration option for that as I would expect this to be core to
> any network stack if it is implemented (as you didn't tell us much
> details, I could be completely wrong though).
>
> Btw, you can also check the support of your port locally as we have 2
> tests covering this area:
> * LayoutTests/fast/http/tests/xmlhttprequest/methods.html
> * LayoutTests/fast/http/tests/xmlhttprequest/methods-async.html
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
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