Well said! :) In addition it would be nice if a developer could easily, manually close the connection if for some reason needed too.
-- Brandon Aaron On 4/18/07, Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is code written by the devil to torture the good and pure of heart! It was a kludge to a firefox version that is no longer supported. It's only still there because it was taken as gospel by the early adopters of jQuery! I'm not a zealot, or calling for a reform, but I can no longer support the idea that an http connection ever needs to be forced closed. John has previously spoken on these 2 evil lines of code, Who will be the first to strike them from memory???? They cause nothing but trouble and mislead the innocent, jQuery is not hocus pocus, yet those 2 lines are. THERE, I feel better! On 4/18/07, Jörn Zaefferer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dan G. Switzer, II schrieb: > > Jeff, > > > > > >> Boy I feel like a dummy, but I can't even find that line in my jQuery > >> script. I am testing with jQuery 1.1.2 unpacked. Is that what we are > >> talking about? I might be having a similar problem and want to test > >> against that by commenting this out as well, but it helps if you can > >> find it first. > >> > >> doh.. > >> > > > > Try searching for the word "connection". I think it only appears a few > > times. The line is where base AJAX code is. > > > In the (almost) latest revision at line ~ 4907: > > if ( xml.overrideMimeType ) > xml.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close"); > > I'm still not sure when that is really necessary to set. Could someone > summarize the conclusion from this thread? > > -- > Jörn Zaefferer > > http://bassistance.de > > -- Ⓙⓐⓚⓔ - יעקב ʝǡǩȩ ᎫᎪᏦᎬ