[Development] QTBUG-35892. QML XMLHttpRequest does not support the OPTIONS method.

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday 03 September 2014 20:31:04 Валерий Котов wrote:
> > Actually, I'm going back on what I had said. I think we can do
> > sendCustomRequest for both types of requests. The difference would be that
> > http://example.com sends OPTIONS * to example.com, but http://example.com/
> > sends OPTIONS / to example.com.
> 
> Ok. Does that mean that from qml call should be like the following?
> x.open("OPTIONS", "http://example.com/");      // for request with url
> x.open("OPTIONS", "http://example.com");      // for request with asterisk

You tell me. How does it work right now in QML for a GET? How does it work in 
HTML for a GET or for OPTIONS?

> >> How "OPTIONS *" call should be represented in QML? Should it be something
> >> like this:
> >> var x = new XMLHttpRequest;
> >> x.open("OPTIONS", url);      // for request with url
> >> var x = new XMLHttpRequest;
> >> x.open("OPTIONS *", url);    // for request with asterisk
> > 
> > How is it represented in HTML5?
> > Just do it the same way.
> 
> I'm a little unsure that I understood. Could you please clarify what did
> you mean by "represented in HTML5"?

XMLHttpRequests have existed in JavaScript and HTML5 for years. How do they do 
this?

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