[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13905] New: REGRESSION: A Chinese dictionary widget has a problem with XMLHttpRequest response encoding

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13905

           Summary: REGRESSION: A Chinese dictionary widget has a problem
                    with XMLHttpRequest response encoding
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 522+ (nightly)
          Platform: Macintosh
        OS/Version: Mac OS X 10.4
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: Regression, InRadar
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: XML
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: ap at webkit.org
                CC: annevankesteren+webkit at gmail.com


rdar://5185933

This widget gets an HTML response, and the response encoding is determined by a
Http-Equiv META. Shipping WebKit is naive enough to just feed any XHR responses
to an HTML/XML decoder, so it always honors METAs. However, TOT matches other
browsers (and the current draft spec) in that it only looks inside XML
responses for encoding information.

The good news is that it has been suggested that browsers should also look
inside HTML responses in order to implement XHR.responseHTML some day (or to
extend responseXML to work with HTML). So, maybe we can still get the spec
changed.


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