[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 11049] XMLHttpRequest always defaults Content-Type to application/xml, while it should depend on data type

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11049





--- Comment #19 from Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>  2009-12-21 10:52:57 PST ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> wouldn't it be nice for WebKit to set a good
> example and be the first to do the reasonable thing.

The tradeoff is against breaking something that currently works. If we had
evidence that making this change would not have an adverse effect on existing
websites or other uses of WebKit, then it would be an easy decision. We could
just switch to "the reasonable thing" and set a good example. Although even
then we could fall prey to the problem where we implement something in a
standard, and then the standard later changes. That's happened to use on the
WebKit project before.

Since there is a real chance this change could affect websites, we may need to
be a bit more cautious.

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