[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 86344] [BlackBerry] xhr request to non existent file response is 0 and not 404.

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86344





--- Comment #4 from George Staikos <staikos at kde.org>  2012-05-14 04:44:27 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (From update of attachment 141678 [details] [details])
> > 1) Why are you changing a platform independent test and then a platform specific file?
> 
> This test case is written by myself for "[BlackBerry] Missing readyState 2 when a XMLHttpRequest calls xmlhttp.open("HEAD","notExist.html",true).
>     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83866"
> 
> And I think this bug is similar to 83866. Just another point to fix.

  Ok, so the testcase was not quite correct to begin with.  You should maybe be more clear in your commit log.

> > 2) Should this really be special cased to HEAD?  Seems like a hack around a deeper problem.  Is the issue really just that HEAD returns no data?  Is this a CURL quirk?
> 
> If it is not HEAD, we can receive data and the response will be sent to webkit.

   Is HEAD the only method that will behave like this?  It still feels odd to me.  What if HTTP GET or POST truly returns an empty file?

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