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

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 12 September 2014 01:19:30 Valery Kotov wrote:
> Greetings everybody! Thank you for your responses.
> 
> > Given the previous discussions referenced from the working groups for
> 
> xmlhttprequest I think it's pretty clear that we can forget about OPTIONS
> *. Just using a
> 
> > custom verb and implementing it in the xmlhttprequest implementation of
> 
> qml seems like the way to go.
> Ok. Then https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/92664/ patch can be
> rejected. It does not contain valuable changes. "OPTIONS" is already
> supported by "sendCustomRequest" and covered with tests. Should I perform
> any actions to reject the patch?

Abandon it.

> > By the way, do you know of who would need OPTIONS *? What's the use-case,
> who
> > would use it and how do they do it today?
> 
> Unfortunately, I can't think of any specific use case except getting
> general server settings. For example (from specification), OPTIONS request
> can be used to test proxy for HTTP/1.1 conformance. Another use case for
> using "OPTIONS *": preflight request in case of using CORS.

Most proxies are HTTP/1.0...

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